Debconf should have asked you on what port you want BitlBee to run. If it
did not, the port number is 6667 or 6668. (6668 if you already got an ircd
running at 6667)

Fire up your favourite IRC client and connect to localhost:6667 (or 6668),
and read the documentation (type help for a list of commands).

Have fun!

The /usr/share/doc/bitlbee/examples/ directory contains some programs and
scripts you might like or need. They're not really examples but it's quite
normal behaviour to put small contrib stuff like that in there.

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NOTE: When trying to use dpkg-reconfigure to change the BitlBee port number,
you might get the following message:

WARNING: BitlBee port number in debconf and inetd.conf don't match.
         Please change this setting by editing /etc/inetd.conf by hand.

Although this worked with previous versions of the package, I had to remove
this to comply with Debian policy. So if you want to change the port number,
change it by editing /etc/inetd.conf by hand.

Since future BitlBee packages won't run via inetd anymore, I'll just stick
with this solution for now.