You might be interested to set up an IRC bouncer, like ZNC, instead of running Irssi on your server. ZNC will maintain a constant connection and presence to th

You might be interested to set up an IRC bouncer, like ZNC, instead of running Irssi on your server. ZNC will maintain a constant connection and presence to the IRC server, and then you can use any IRC client to connect to your ZNC server. When you connect to ZNC, you'll get a playback of recent conversation, any PM's you may have missed, etc. You can even connect multiple IRC clients to your ZNC server; eg, I run Irssi on my server, XChat on my home machine, and can also connect from my phone using Andchat. I've actually written a module for ZNC [1] that will send push notifications to your computer or mobile phone, using a variety of services, whenever you get mentioned or private messaged. The conditions for sending a push notification can be customized to your heart's content, and you don't have to worry about missing replies to your questions. If you want more details about the setup, I wrote an article [2] describing my entire IRC stack; you can get as simple or as complicated as you want. [1] http://noswap.com/projects/znc-push/ http://noswap.com/projects/znc-push/ [2] http://noswap.com/articles/irc/ http://noswap.com/articles/irc/