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diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml index 896159394c..09dd21352f 100644 --- a/docs/sample_config.yaml +++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml @@ -328,6 +328,69 @@ listeners: # #user_ips_max_age: 14d +# Message retention policy at the server level. +# +# Room admins and mods can define a retention period for their rooms using the +# 'm.room.retention' state event, and server admins can cap this period by setting +# the 'allowed_lifetime_min' and 'allowed_lifetime_max' config options. +# +# If this feature is enabled, Synapse will regularly look for and purge events +# 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. +# +retention: + # The message retention policies feature is disabled by default. Uncomment the + # following line to enable it. + # + #enabled: true + + # Default retention policy. If set, Synapse will apply it to rooms that lack the + # 'm.room.retention' state event. Currently, the value of 'min_lifetime' doesn't + # matter much because Synapse doesn't take it into account yet. + # + #default_policy: + # min_lifetime: 1d + # max_lifetime: 1y + + # Retention policy limits. If set, a user won't be able to send a + # 'm.room.retention' event which features a 'min_lifetime' or a 'max_lifetime' + # that's not within this range. This is especially useful in closed federations, + # in which server admins can make sure every federating server applies the same + # rules. + # + #allowed_lifetime_min: 1d + #allowed_lifetime_max: 1y + + # Server admins can define the settings of the background jobs purging the + # events which lifetime has expired under the 'purge_jobs' section. + # + # If no configuration is provided, a single job will be set up to delete expired + # events in every room daily. + # + # Each job's configuration defines which range of message lifetimes the job + # takes care of. For example, if 'shortest_max_lifetime' is '2d' and + # 'longest_max_lifetime' is '3d', the job will handle purging expired events in + # rooms whose state defines a 'max_lifetime' that's both higher than 2 days, and + # lower than or equal to 3 days. Both the minimum and the maximum value of a + # range are optional, e.g. a job with no 'shortest_max_lifetime' and a + # 'longest_max_lifetime' of '3d' will handle every room with a retention policy + # which 'max_lifetime' is lower than or equal to three days. + # + # The rationale for this per-job configuration is that some rooms might have a + # retention policy with a low 'max_lifetime', where history needs to be purged + # of outdated messages on a very frequent basis (e.g. every 5min), but not want + # that purge to be performed by a job that's iterating over every room it knows, + # which would be quite heavy on the server. + # + #purge_jobs: + # - shortest_max_lifetime: 1d + # longest_max_lifetime: 3d + # interval: 5m: + # - shortest_max_lifetime: 3d + # longest_max_lifetime: 1y + # interval: 24h + ## TLS ## |