You can use it to connect to [[!wikipedia Internet_Relay_Chat]] or [[!wikipedia XMPP]] (also known as Jabber) servers, and have several accounts connected at the same time.
For more detailed documentation refer to the [official <span class="application">Pidgin</span> user guide](https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin).
As explained on its [official page](https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/), <span class="application">Off-the-Record</span> messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
In a private OTR conversation over IRC, <strong>a message sent using the <code>/me</code> command is not encrypted</strong>. The person receiving the message is notified by a warning.
For security reasons, it is only possible to use IRC and XMPP with <span class="application">Pidgin</span> in Tails. Here are the prerequisites to enable another protocol that is supported by <span class="application">Pidgin</span> otherwise: