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labels:

- 'Stage-Alpha'

summary: 'XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support'

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Introduction

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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

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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

[mod\_blocklist](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_blocklist).

Configuration

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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

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  0.10   Works but will conflict with mod\_blocklist

  0.9    Works

  0.8    Works

  0.7    Works

  0.6    Doesn't work

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