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invisible users don't receive offline messages

Submitted by edjusted on Fri, 2008-09-26 17:38

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We're currently running Jabberd-1.4.3 and are testing out ejabberd. One thing I discovered is this:

Under Jabberd-1.4.3:
1. user A sends a message to user B, who's currently offline
2. user B logs in as invisible, and receives the offline message

Under ejabberd:
1. user A sends a message to user B, who's currently offline
2. user B logs in as invisible, and does not receive the offline message
3. user B only gets his offline message(s) if he becomes "online"

Is this a bug in ejabberd? It seems like "invisible" should be considered the same as "online" for online messages. Is there a workaround/fix?

Check how your client makes 'invisible'.

Submitted by mfoss on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:46.

There are several methods in Jabber/XMPP to be 'invisible'.

XEP-0018: Invisible Presence proposes a presence of type 'invisible'. It is a rejected XEP.
XEP-0126: Invisibility uses privacy rules
XEP-0186: Invisible Command is still experimental and not implemented
The client logins but doesn't send the initial presence.

Note what XEP-0160: Best Practices for Handling Offline Messages says:

When the recipient next sends non-negative available presence to the server, the server delivers the message to the resource that has sent that presence.

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invisible users don't receive offline messages

Check how your client makes 'invisible'.

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