IRC and Email

The [[client-tunnels]] directive specified in router.toml provides I2PTunnel-like functionality and allows connecting to services hosted inside I2P. Currently only TCP-like connections are supported.

IRC

A client tunnel must be specified for each network.

• port is the port in localhost the IRC client should connect to
• destination_port is the port that the IRC server is listening on
• destination is the hostname of the IRC server and can be either a .b32.i2p or .i2p address

If a .i2p address is used, the host must exist in your address book.

[[client-tunnels]]
name = "irc-postman"
address = "127.0.0.1"
port = 6668
destination = "irc.postman.i2p"
destination_port = 6667

[[client-tunnels]]
name = "irc-ilita"
address = "127.0.0.1"
port = 6669
destination = "irc.ilita.i2p"
destination_port = 6667

Connecting to Irc2P is simply a matter of adding the configured servers to your IRC client configuration and connecting:

irssi

servers = (
  {
    address = "127.0.0.1";
    port = "6668";
    use_tls = "no";
    tls_verify = "no";
    starttls = "no";
    chatnet = "irc-postman";
  },
  {
    address = "127.0.0.1";
    port = "6669";
    use_tls = "no";
    tls_verify = "no";
    starttls = "no";
    chatnet = "irc-ilita";
  }
);

Start irssi and run /connect irc-postman or /connect irc-ilita

HexChat

Specify localhost/<PORT> as the server's address where <PORT> is the port assigned for that network in router.toml.

Using the tunnel configuration specified above:

• the address of irc-postman is localhost/6668
• the address of irc-ilita is localhost/6669

Email

To send and read email, SMTP and POP client tunnels must be configured in router.toml and the email software must to configured to use the defined address:port pair as SMTP/POP servers.

[[client-tunnels]]
name = "pop-postman"
address = "127.0.0.1"
port = 6670
destination = "pop.postman.i2p"
destination_port = 110

[[client-tunnels]]
name = "smtp-postman"
address = "127.0.0.1"
port = 6671
destination = "smtp.postman.i2p"
destination_port = 25

NeoMutt

set pop_pass = "PASSWORD"
set pop_host = "pop://USER@127.0.0.1:6670"

set smtp_pass = "PASSWORD"
set smtp_url = "smtp://USER@127.0.0.1:6671"
set from = "USER@mail.i2p"

set ssl_force_tls = no
set ssl_starttls = no

set pop_check_interval = 900
set folder = $pop_host
set spool_file =+