Ejabberd: Server-side message deletion for MAM messages

[mremond]

XEP-0313: Message Archive Management does not propose a way to delete a message.

It would be handy to propose a draft XEP and implementation to handle server-side message deletion from archive.

Things to take into account:

• Do we want to delete from only my archive or all archives ?
• What should be the link with XEP-0424: Message Retraction ?
• What should be the link with XEP-0425: Message Moderation ?
• Specific handling and right management in the case of MUC.

Let's discuss here draft protocol and implementation.

[weiss]

I think such a draft should also support deletion of HTTP-uploaded resources when deleting a message that references an uploaded file. The problem with supporting this cleanly is that the actual referencing of uploaded files is done quite ad-hoc: The message typically just holds the URI to an uploaded file in the (possibly encrypted) body and in an OOB-URL. Nevertheless, if we support message deletion without upload deletion, it will take no longer than 48 hours until people complain :smile:

[PasqualePuzio]

+1 this would make perfect sense in modern messaging applications

[haimomesi]

This Link is a draft from 2015. might give a direction towards implementing it as well.

Once a draft is intact, can we expect it to be in the next versions?

[Sheharyar566]

Any progress on this?

[manuel-rubio]

I guess you can get inspiration from MongooseIM: https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/pull/2739