[JDEV] Jabber clients that don't take messages, possible?

[Steven Brown]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org] On 
> Behalf Of Robert Norris
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:27 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Jabber clients that don't take messages, possible?
> 
> 
> > If you set your presence priority to a negative value the 
> server isn't 
> > supposed to send that resource any messages that were sent to your 
> > bare jid (node at host).  So you could login with your message-less 
> > client and send something like 
> > "<presence><priority>-1</priority></presence>" and you 
> shouldn't get 
> > any messages.  I know it's in the XMPP spec, but I'm not 
> sure if it's 
> > in JabberD 1.4.2.
> 
> Its not. It is in jabberd2, however.

Thanks for the info, all.  The -1 priority sounds to be exactly what I
need (It's for a geolocator that interfaces with our system through
Jabber).  I'll have a look at hacking in support for this to the 1.4
branch we use.