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+labels:
+- 'Stage-Stable'
+summary: 'Redirect long messages to built-in pastebin'
+...
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Pastebins are used very often in IM, especially in chat rooms. You have
+a long log or command output which you need to send to someone over IM,
+and don't want to fill their message window with it. Put it on a
+pastebin site, and give them the URL instead, simple.
+
+Not for everyone... no matter how hard you try, people will be unaware,
+or not care. They may also be too lazy to visit a pastebin. This is
+where mod\_pastebin comes in!
+
+Details
+=======
+
+When someone posts to a room a "large" (the actual limit is
+configurable) message, Prosody will intercept the message and convert it
+to a URL pointing to a built-in pastebin server. The URLs are randomly
+generated, so they can be considered for most purposes to be private,
+and cannot be discovered by people who are not in the room.
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+To set up mod\_pastebin for MUC rooms it **must** be explicitly loaded,
+as in the example below - it won't work when loaded globally, as that
+will only load it onto normal virtual hosts.
+
+For example:
+
+    Component "conference.example.com" "muc"
+        modules_enabled = { "pastebin" }
+
+Pastes will be available by default at
+`http://<your-prosody>:5280/pastebin/` by default. This can be changed
+with `pastebin_ports` (see below), or you can forward another external
+URL from your web server to Prosody, use `pastebin_url` to set that URL.
+
+Configuration
+=============
+
+  --------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  pastebin\_ports             List of ports to run the HTTP server on, same format as mod\_httpserver's http\_ports
+  pastebin\_threshold         Maximum length (in characters) of a message that is allowed to skip the pastebin. (default 500 characters)
+  pastebin\_line\_threshold   The maximum number of lines a message may have before it is sent to the pastebin. (default 4 lines)
+  pastebin\_trigger           A string of characters (e.g. "!paste ") which if detected at the start of a message, always sends the message to the pastebin, regardless of length. (default: not set)
+  pastebin\_url               Base URL to display for pastebin links, must end with / and redirect to Prosody's built-in HTTP server
+  pastebin\_expire\_after     Number of hours after which to expire (remove) a paste, defaults to 24. Set to 0 to store pastes permanently on disk.
+  --------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Compatibility
+=============
+
+  ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  0.9   Works, but pastebin\_ports does not exist anymore, see the 0.9.0 release notes
+  0.8   Works
+  0.7   Works
+  0.6   Works
+  ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Todo
+====
+
+-   Maximum paste length
+-   Web interface to submit pastes?