From d4751b139c2cacfd0be253545230b6ee18acbefe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: H-Shay Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:55:00 +0000 Subject: deploy: 73c83c641138f0644582468a869e10f19f389800 --- develop/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'develop/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html') diff --git a/develop/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html b/develop/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html index c99daf7efc..bf4bc25ed9 100644 --- a/develop/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html +++ b/develop/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html @@ -835,7 +835,11 @@ the allowed_lifetime_min and allowed_lifetime_max conf which are older than the room's maximum retention period. Synapse will also filter events received over federation so that events that should have been purged are ignored and not stored again.

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The message retention policies feature is disabled by default.

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The message retention policies feature is disabled by default. Please be advised +that enabling this feature carries some risk. There are known bugs with the implementation +which can cause database corruption. Setting retention to delete older history +is less risky than deleting newer history but in general caution is advised when enabling this +experimental feature. You can read more about this feature here.

This setting has the following sub-options: