#summary XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support

#labels Stage-Alpha

= Introduction =

Privacy lists are a widely implemented protocol for instructing your server on blocking communications with selected users and services.

However experience has shown that the power and flexibility of the rule-based system that privacy lists allow is very often much more complex than the user needs, and that in most cases a simple block on all communications to or from a list of specified JIDs would suffice.

Such a protocol would also allow much simpler user interface design than the current attempts at full privacy list interfaces.

= Details =

Simple Communications Blocking was developed to solve the above issues, and allows the client to manage a simple list of blocked JIDs. This plugin implements support for that protocol in Prosody, however the actual blocking is still managed by mod_privacy, so it is *required* for that plugin to be loaded (this may change in future).

An XEP-0191 implementation without dependency on mod_privacy is available in Prosody 0.10 as [https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_blocklist mod_blocklist].

= Configuration =

Simply ensure that mod_privacy (or mod_privacy_lists in 0.10+) and mod_blocking are loaded in your modules_enabled list:

{{{

    modules_enabled = {

                    -- ...

                    "privacy", -- or privacy_lists in Prosody 0.10+

                    "blocking",

                    -- ...

}}}

= Compatibility =

||0.10||Works but will conflict with mod_blocklist||

||0.9||Works||

||0.8||Works||

||0.7||Works||

||0.6||Doesn't work||