[ejabberd] Problematic ejabberd 2.0.4; was Re: Why subscription requests can not be

[Badlop]

2009/3/25 Xia Qingran <qingran.xia at gmail.com>:
> Now I have a big problem that when I subscribed the offline guys, he or she
> would not get authentication notice to approve my subscription. But when the
> target user is online, he or she will immediately get the notice of
> authentication. ...

> I am running ejabberd 2.0.4 ...

> I think there is something wrong in configuration of ejabberd. Can anyone
> give me some advice?

I'm sorry to inform that I wrote a fix (included in ejabberd 2.0.4)
that broke other parts of subscription and roster.

So, ejabberd 2.0.4 solved this:
  Privacy rules can't stop subscription requests
  https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-300
but it introduced other problems, like
  Subscription request produces many authorization requests with some
clients and transports
  https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-890
and the problem that you explain now.

Both EJAB-890 and the problem that you explain are solved by ejabberd SVN r1998:
https://forge.process-one.net/changelog/ejabberd/?cs=1998

ejabberd 2.0.5 is planned for soon release, and will include just that:
https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB/fixforversion/10301

You have several options:
* Keep 2.0.4 until 2.0.5 is released in the next days
* If you installed 2.0.4 from binary installer, install the previous
ejabberd 2.0.3, which didn't have this problem
* If you installed 2.0.4 from source package, apply the patch:
http://tkabber.jabber.ru/files/download/ejabberd-2.0.x-r1998.diff


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Badlop,
ProcessOne