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mod_muc_cloud_notify: New module Fork of mod_cloud_notify for MUCs.
author JC Brand <jc@opkode.com>
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+---
+labels:
+- 'Stage-Alpha'
+summary: 'XEP-XXX: Cloud push notifications for MUC'
+---
+
+# Introduction
+
+This is an experimental fork of [mod_cloud_notify](https://modules.prosody.im/mod_cloud_notify.html)
+which allows a [XEP-0357 Push Notifications App Servers](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html#general-architecture)
+to be registered against a MUC domain (normally they're only registered against
+your own chat server's domain).
+
+The goal here is to also enable push notifications also for MUCs.
+
+In contrast to mod_cloud_notify, this module does NOT integrate with
+mod_smacks, because a MUC can't access a remote user's XEP-0198 queue.
+
+Configuration
+=============
+
+  Option                               Default           Description
+  ------------------------------------ ----------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  `push_notification_with_body`        `false`           Whether or not to send the message body to remote pubsub node.
+  `push_notification_with_sender`      `false`           Whether or not to send the message sender to remote pubsub node.
+  `push_max_errors`                    `16`              How much persistent push errors are tolerated before notifications for the identifier in question are disabled
+  `push_notification_important_body`   `New Message!`    The body text to use when the stanza is important (see above), no message body is sent if this is empty
+  `push_max_devices`                   `5`               The number of allowed devices per user (the oldest devices are automatically removed if this threshold is reached)
+
+There are privacy implications for enabling these options because
+plaintext content and metadata will be shared with centralized servers
+(the pubsub node) run by arbitrary app developers.
+
+## To test this module:
+
+The [Converse](http://conversejs.org/) client has support for registering push
+"app servers" against a MUC.
+
+You specify app servers with the [push_app_servers](https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/blob/master/docs/source/configuration.rst#push_app_servers)
+config setting.
+
+And then you need to set [allow_muc_invitations](https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/blob/master/docs/source/configuration.rst#allow_muc_invitations)
+to `true` so that these app servers are also registered against MUC domains.
+
+Then, when you enter a MUC, Converse will try to automatically registered the
+app servers against the MUC domain.
+
+Note: currently Converse currently doesn't let you register separate app servers for
+a MUC domain. The same app servers are registered for the MUC domain and your
+own domain.
+
+## To be done:
+
+We currently don't handle "ghost connections", users who are currently offline
+but the XMPP server is not yet aware of this and shows considers them online in
+the MUC.
+
+Prosody already checks for error bounces from undelivered groupchat messages
+and then kicks the particular user from the room.
+
+So these ghost connection users eventually get kicked from the room.
+
+We now need a module that fires an event when a groupchat messages can't be
+delivered to an occupant. The module can look up the undelivered message in MAM
+and include it in the event.
+
+In mod_muc_cloud_notify we can then listen for this event and send out a push
+notification.