[Bug]: Can't invite prosody server admins to chatrooms in their server about monal HOT 3 CLOSED

We have been planning to deprecate this behaviour for some time - we made it optional in the last release, and the next release will now disable it by default: https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/3e6d5738ea09

This change won't be backported to 0.12, though a new major release is not far away.

from monal.

Well, Monal adds the user to the group first (member affiliation) before sending out the direct invite and if that does not work, it does not send a (then useless) direct invite.

This prosody setting is a special case.
IMHO Prosody should accept any affiliation adding the admin to a muc they aren't already in and automatically promote them to owner. And only respond with an error message if the admin is already in the room (e.g. when it's a true affiliation change and not adding a new user).

Direct invites have the benefit that the inviter can be used to determine the trustworthiness of the invite (e.g. check if the inviter is in my roster before automatically entering the muc etc.).
Mediated invites can be spoofed --> a spammer's muc can just use any jid as the inviter.

from monal.

Since is's now fixed on the prosody side, I'll close this issue now.

from monal.