MCabber requires you to create a subdirectory .mcabber in your home
directory and to place a configuration file there.
An example mcabberrc was installed as part of the documentation.
To create a new mcabberrc based on the example mcabberrc, execute the
following commands:

  mkdir -p ~/.mcabber
  bzcat /usr/share/doc/mcabber*/mcabberrc.example.bz2 > ~/.mcabber/mcabberrc

Then edit ~/.mcabber/mcabberrc with your favorite editor.

See the CONFIGURATION FILE and FILES sections of the mcabber
manual page (section 1) for more information.

MCabber supports PGP encryption of messages. See README_PGP.txt for details.

Check out /usr/share/mcabber/ for contributed themes and event scripts.