mikalv / matterircd

Connect to your local/remote mattermost installation via your IRC-client.

matterircd

Minimal IRC server which integrates with mattermost
Tested on Windows / Linux

Most of the work happens in mm-go-irckit (based on github.com/shazow/go-irckit)

Docker

Run the irc server on port 6667. You'll need to specify -bind 0.0.0.0:6667 otherwise it only listens on 127.0.0.1 in the container.

docker run -p 6667:6667 42wim/matterircd:latest -bind 0.0.0.0:6667

Now you can connect with your IRC client to port 6667 on your docker host.

Compatibility

• Matterircd v0.8.1 works with mattermost 3.0.0 and higher 3.1.0 release
• Matterircd v0.5 works with mattermost 1.4.0 until 2.2.0 release
• Matterircd v0.2 works only on mattermost < 1.4.0

Master branch of matterircd should always work against latest STABLE mattermost release.
If you want to run matterircd with mattermost DEV builds, use the develop branch of matterircd.

Features

• support direct messages / private channels
• auto-join/leave to same channels as on mattermost
• reconnects with backoff on mattermost restarts
• support multiple users
• support channel backlog (messages when you're disconnected from IRC/mattermost)
• search messages (/msg mattermost search query)
• scrollback support (/msg mattermost scrollback #channel limit)
• restrict to specified mattermost instances
• set default team/server
• WHOIS, WHO, JOIN, LEAVE, NICK, LIST, ISON, PRIVMSG, MODE, TOPIC, LUSERS, AWAY support
• support TLS (ssl)
• support LDAP logins (mattermost enterprise) (use your ldap account/pass to login)
• &users channel that contains members of all teams (if mattermost is so configured) for easy messaging
• supports mattermost roles (shows admins with @ status for now)
• gitlab auth hack by using mmtoken cookie (see 42wim#29)

Binaries

You can find the binaries here

• For use with mattermost 3.0.0+ v0.8.1
• For use with mattermost 1.4.0-2.2.0 v0.5
• For use with mattermost <1.4.0 v0.2

Building

Go 1.6+ is required Make sure you have Go properly installed, including setting up your [GOPATH] (https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH)

cd $GOPATH
go get github.com/42wim/matterircd

You should now have matterircd binary in the bin directory:

$ ls bin/
matterircd

Usage

Usage of ./matterircd:
  -bind string
        interface:port to bind to. (default "127.0.0.1:6667")
  -debug
        enable debug logging
  -interface string
        interface to bind to (deprecated: use -bind)
  -mminsecure
        use http connection to mattermost
  -mmserver string
        specify default mattermost server/instance
  -mmteam string
        specify default mattermost team
  -port int
        Port to bind to (deprecated: use -bind)
  -restrict string
        only allow connection to specified mattermost server/instances. Space delimited
  -tlsbind string
        interface:port to bind to. (e.g 127.0.0.1:6697)
  -tlsdir string
        directory to look for key.pem and cert.pem. (default ".")
  -version
        show version

Matterircd will listen by default on localhost port 6667. Connect with your favorite irc-client to localhost:6667

For TLS support you'll need to generate certificates.
You can use this program generate_cert.go to generate key.pem and cert.pem

Mattermost user commands

Login

/msg mattermost login <server> <team> <username/email> <password>

Or if it is set up to only allow one host:

/msg mattermost login <username/email> <password>

Search

/msg mattermost search query

Scrollback

/msg mattermost scrollback <channel> <limit>
e.g. /msg mattermost scrollback #bugs 100 shows the last 100 messages of #bugs

Docker

A docker image for easily setting up and running matterircd on a server is available at docker hub.

Examples

1. Login to your favorite mattermost service by sending a message to the mattermost user

2. You'll be auto-joined to all the channels you're a member of

3. Chat away

Also works with windows ;-)

If you use chrome, you can easily test with circ