Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations

Re:Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends a... by jszymborski on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:51PM (#25717256)

Would anyone be familiar as to how to regularly purge metadata (or even message history) from homeservers?

I run my own server and don't need my message history to live forever there.

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Re:Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends a... by gary-kim on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:33PM (#25718662)

Set the retention policy setting on your homeserver (I'm assuming you're using Synapse): https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/bce0c91d9a89097c9...

I also have mine set up though without a default_policy so I can have the server forget stuff in my bot control rooms cause they get cluttered with useless stuff pretty fast.

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Re:Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends a... by jszymborski on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:53PM (#25723780)

Thanks so much! I’m also running a lot of bots so this’ll be particularly useful.

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