Ignore feature?

Spark Spark Support
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I had originally posted this in the IM gateways support, and am posting here per jadestorm’'s suggestion.

I’‘ve been harassed lately by a user on Yahoo! IM and would love to ignore the little twat. I could have sworn that there was an ignore option in earlier versions of Spark, but may be mistaken. I didn’‘t see anything in the current version and didn’'t see anything posted here in the forums. Is there currently a way to ignore IMs from a user on a IM gateway? Or, is this planned for a future release? (Or if not, could it be?)

Thanks!

Nicki

2

Hi Nicki,

Spark did never have an ignore feature but Openfire and supports privacy lists. I have anyhow no idea if these work also with Y! accounts and how they must be configured to do.

You may want to take a look at http://wiki.igniterealtime.org/display/SPARK/Privacy+Lists and press F12 within Spark to open the debug window to identify the messages (especially from=“yahoo-user” - no idea if this is a unique name like “toad@yahoo-gateway” or just “yahoo-gateway”) so you know what you want to block.

If it’'s “toad@yahoo-gateway” you may want to use the Ad-Hoc commands (Spark+F12) and send

<iq id="id1public" to="nicki@example.com/spark" type="set">
  <query xmlns="jabber:iq:privacy">
    <list name="block">
      <item action="deny" order="1" type="jid" value="toad@yahoo-gateway">
            <message></message><presence-in></presence-in><presence-out></presence-out><iq></iq>
          </item>
      <item action="allow" order="1000"></item>
    </list>
  </query>
</iq>
<iq id="id2public" from="nicki@example.com/spark" type="set">
  <query xmlns="jabber:iq:privacy">
    <default name="block"></default>
  </query>
</iq>

This should set “block” as your default privacy list and block this user even if you logout and login again.

LG

3

possibility to make it in spark for the end user to admin instead of having it server based?

4

We have a few requests here for an ignore feature as well. I think any IM client should have something like this available.

5

Hi,

Spark is missing a feature to set privacy lists using a GUI but it’‘s much better to block unwanted traffic on the server instead of wasting your and the server’'s bandwidth with it.

LG

6

Maybe if you want to spend all day administering your IM server. I don’'t. I can see this being an issue for sure if we go live with this. Decisions decisions. Anyone know if any of the other clients are a little more ‘‘full featured’’? But not so complicated that non-technical ppl can still find their way around them?

7

I know Coccinella has some filter feature but it seems to be broken (at least in CVS). Besides that it for sure is outdated and usability can be improved a lot. /me will ping Mats about this.