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Improve UX by providing defaults users expect
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2 labels:
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3 - 'Stage-Beta'
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4 summary: Forward offline messages via email
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5 ...
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7 Introduction
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8 ============
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10 Quite often when I am out and about, I'm not able to connect to Jabber.
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11 It is usually much more likely I can access my email though (whether via
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12 the web, or a mobile client).
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14 For this reason I decided it would be extremely useful to have Jabber
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15 messages sent to me while I was offline forwarded to my email inbox.
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17 Usage
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18 =====
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20 Simply add "offline\_email" to your modules\_enabled list. When any user
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21 receives a message while they are offline, it will automatically be
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22 forwarded via mail to the **same** address as their Jabber ID. e.g.
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23 user1@example.com's offline messages will be forwarded to
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24 user1@example.com's email inbox.
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26 Configuration
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27 =============
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29 Option Description
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30 ------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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31 queue\_offline\_emails The number of seconds to buffer messages for, before they are sent as an email. The default is to send each message as it arrives.
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32 smtp\_server Address of the SMTP server to send through. Default 'localhost' (recommended, see caveats below)
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33 smtp\_username If set, Prosody will authenticate with the SMTP server before sending (default is no authentication)
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34 smtp\_password The password for the above user (default is none)
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35 smtp\_from Address from which it will appear the emails came. Default is smtp\_username@smtp\_server, where smtp\_username is replaced with 'xmpp' if not set
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37 Compatibility
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38 =============
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40 ----- -------
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41 0.9 Works
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44 Caveats/Todos/Bugs
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45 ==================
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47 - Currently SMTP sending blocks the whole server. This should not be
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48 noticeable if your mail server is on the same machine as Prosody.
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49 - There is not (yet) any way to configure forwarding to an email
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50 address other than your JID (idea... use email address in vcard?)
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51 - Enable/disable this feature per user?