Patch available for testing.

mfoss — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:43:28 +0000

I've reported the feature request here: Allow admins to send messages to rooms.

I wrote a simple patch for ejabberd trunk SVN.

If you try it, tell me if it works correctly.

Not possible right now

mfoss — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:39:16 +0000

rmorgan wrote:

how to configure ejabberd to allow non occupants of a conference room to send messages to the room.

This is in general not allowed, because XEP-0045 says:

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If the sender is not an occupant of the room, the service SHOULD return a error to the sender and SHOULD NOT reflect the message to all occupants;

The protocol also gives a hint:

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the only exception to this rule is that an implementation MAY allow users with certain privileges (e.g., a room owner, room admin, or service-level admin) to send messages to the room even if those users are not occupants.

However, ejabberd does not implement such possibility. The only possiblity is that an admin sends a message to the MUC JID (for example to 'conference.example.org'), and the message will be sent to all the rooms in MUC.

rmorgan wrote:

As I want to send alerts to a conference room by executing a perl script from the monitoring server.

The feature looks interesting. I'll take a look at the possibility this weekend.

If it isn't easy to implement in ejabberd, the bot could login in ejabberd, join the room, send the message and logout.

ejabberd - Comments for "Allow Non Occupants Voice in Conference Rooms"

Patch available for testing.

Not possible right now