#867 MAM: Enable archiving after users first query

Reporter Ge0rG
Owner Zash
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  • Priority-Low
  • Status-Fixed
  • Milestone-0.10
  • Type-Enhancement
  1. Ge0rG on

    Once mod_mam is loaded, it will log data for all users on the server, even for high-traffic users who never actually use MAM. Please copy the behavior of ejabberd where MAM is only enabled for a given account once that user accesses the MAM archive once.

  2. Zash on

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    • owner Zash
    • title mod_mam: do not enable MAM by default on all accounts MAM: Enable archiving after users first query
    • tags Milestone-0.10 Status-Accepted
  3. Zash on

    MattJ was opposed.

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    • tags low Status-New
  4. Zash on

    ...

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    • tags low Priority-Low
  5. Zash on

    Unlikely to happen in 0.10, however it could probably me made as a plugin.

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    • tags Milestone-0.10
  6. Ge0rG on

    Just to reiterate that this is also a data privacy problem. MAM is auto-enabled for users without any opt-in. A MAM-enabled client at least in theory could inform the user about activating server-side storage.

  7. Ge0rG on

    And to document the admin console "workaround", which I ended up looking for in the prosody MUC logs multiple times now, which disables archive for individual users: >require"core.storagemanager".open("SERVER", "archive_prefs", "map"):set("USER", false, false)

  8. MattJ on

    Convinced by Ge0rG that a user without a MAM client has no way to opt-out, a user with a MAM client may.

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  9. Zash on

    Should this go in 0.10 or trunk?

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  10. Ge0rG on

    Please add it to 0.10; I'd be okay with it being off-by-default to not break compatibility. Probably this setting mostly matters for public servers only anyway (due to privacy laws), but I don't want you to make it depend on whether IBR is enabled.

  11. Zash on

    Done in https://hg.prosody.im/0.10/rev/3eb4cafb3b64

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    • tags Status-Fixed Milestone-0.10

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