These patches are all at least 3-4 years old so likely won't work very well anymore. YMMV. Please remember that these are patches, and mostly writted by others. If you're having problems with BitlBee that seem to be because of these patches, ask the patch author for support, not us. - bitlbee-1.0-ldap.diff This patch from Rink Springer allows BitlBee to authenticate users via an LDAP-server. Future versions of BitlBee will have functionality to put all settings in LDAP. (Which we want to use to share user configuration between public servers.) 1.0 version patched up by Peter van Dijk . - bitlbee-1.0*-msn6.akke.patch Although the original version works with 1.0 too, this patch actually fixes compilation with GCC versions before 3.x (by getting rid of those nasty variable declarations in the middle of a scope). The original version used to be available on http://www.bitlbee.be/andy/, but it has a new (experimental) version of the patch now. - msn_messenger_plus_away_message.patch Written by James Teh/Tuvok , this patch adds MSN Plus-style away states to the MSN module. - bitlbee-0.92-crypto_storage.patch With this patch, user files are stored with much stronger encryption. This could be nice on public servers, so if somehow the user files get stolen, they won't be very useful. By default, a very weak "encryption" is used, which can be reversed with the most basic crypto-analysis. Written by Zeljko Vrba . - bitlbee-0.92-noquit.patch Some people prefer offline people to be in the channel too. This patch will do that. We'll make this possible in the official version too, but hopefully in a pretty different (and more flexible) way. Until then, you can use this patch. (Based on a patch posted on FreshMeat, this one was adapted by Stanislaw Halik . - bitlbee-devel-aim-icons.diff THIS PATCH CAN ONLY BE USED WITH DEVELOPMENT VERSIONS!!! Do *NOT* complain if they don't work with BitlBee 1.0.x. They don't, and they *never* will. You can only use it with recent development snapshots of BitlBee. Short usage instructions: account add oscar Aim_Dude aimpassword login.oscar.aol.com:/home/blah/icon.gif or account add oscar sn pwd login.oscar.aol.com:http://mysite.com/avatar.gif There will be a better interface later (something like an account set command), at least until then this patch won't be merged. Once again, these patches are UNSUPPORTED! We just offer them here because it's more convenient to host them all here than on various other sites.