On 6 November 2015 at 09:48, Rhonda D'Vine <rho...@deb.at> wrote: > Hi, > > * Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> [2015-10-29 17:09:36 CET]: >> If a developer has their own XMPP account elsewhere or simply doesn't >> want to use it, any requests to be in their roster will simply not be >> responded to. Should we provide an option to automatically reject >> requests sent to accounts that are not used or automatically give some >> reply scripted by the developer? > > I think a forward possibility would be useful. The LDAP already has a > field for Jabber ID. I guess it might make sense to forward things to > there; I'm not sure if it's possible to send stuff back somehow then > though.
You're basically right. Forwarding could be done, but XMPP is not email - it's not possible to forward with the same 'from' address, so it would be a bit unintuitive. Likewise there's no way they could reply back via debian.org to use the address as an alias. There is a 'redirect' error we could use, however I don't know of anyone using it in practice, which is a shame (it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem). There were also some security concerns about XMPP servers automatically following redirects on behalf of users. Regards, Matthew
