[JDEV] Offline Messages to a specific resource...

[Pete Chown]

Hi Ritu,

 > I tried sending a message with a specific resource when the user is
 > offline, but discovered that the message is shown to the user even if
 > he logs on with a different resource.

This behaviour is "by design". ;-) Section eight, "Routing and Delivery
Guidelines", in draft-miller-xmpp-im-00, gives the rules for message
routing.  The first choice is to deliver to a JID that matches exactly.
If there is no such JID logged on, the server will fall back to the
second choice, delivery to a JID which matches apart from the resource.

When there are no resources logged on, neither choice will be possible.
As soon as a partially matching JID logs on, the second choice becomes
possible and the message will be delivered.

-- 
Pete