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misc/mtail: Start of an mtail config Stashing it here in case anyone wants to continue working on it. Currently it's only counting log messages by level. Due to the permissions set by systemd on Prosody logs, mtail never managed to start correctly until permissions were manually relaxed.
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2 labels:
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3 - 'Stage-Alpha'
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4 summary: 'XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support'
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7 Introduction
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8 ============
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10 Privacy lists are a widely implemented protocol for instructing your
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11 server on blocking communications with selected users and services.
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13 However experience has shown that the power and flexibility of the
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14 rule-based system that privacy lists allow is very often much more
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15 complex than the user needs, and that in most cases a simple block on
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16 all communications to or from a list of specified JIDs would suffice.
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18 Such a protocol would also allow much simpler user interface design than
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19 the current attempts at full privacy list interfaces.
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21 Details
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22 =======
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24 Simple Communications Blocking was developed to solve the above issues,
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25 and allows the client to manage a simple list of blocked JIDs. This
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26 plugin implements support for that protocol in Prosody, however the
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27 actual blocking is still managed by mod\_privacy, so it is **required**
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28 for that plugin to be loaded (this may change in future).
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30 An XEP-0191 implementation without dependency on mod\_privacy is
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31 available in Prosody 0.10 as [mod\_blocklist][doc:modules:mod_blocklist].
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33 Configuration
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34 =============
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36 Simply ensure that mod\_privacy (or [mod\_privacy\_lists] in 0.10+) and
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37 mod\_blocking are loaded in your modules\_enabled list:
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39 modules_enabled = {
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40 -- ...
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41 "privacy", -- or privacy_lists in Prosody 0.10+
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42 "blocking",
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43 -- ...
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45 Compatibility
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46 =============
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49 0.10 Works but will conflict with mod\_blocklist
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50 0.9 Works
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51 0.8 Works
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52 0.7 Works
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53 0.6 Doesn't work
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