In Pidgin, when I join a chat
room, it loads the chat
room history. iChat on the Mac has a preference in the Accounts section to set a variable amount of history to load, or disable loading history entirely. How do I do the same thing in Pidgin? Is there a preference somewhere that I've missed? The object is to have the chat
room start fresh each day, so I'd also be fine with disabling chat
room history entirely on the
server if that's possible. But I didn't see that option either when I looked in
Server Admin on the
server.
I found this list of XMPP
room types, and it looks like creating a Temporary
Room might be the best way to do this, but I don't want to have to create the
room manually every morning. Right now I've got Pidgin set to auto-join the
room when I log in; I want it to do that without loading history.
EDIT: The XMPP multi-user chat spec referenced above also contains a section on managing history. And I got this to work by pulling up the XMPP Console plugin in Pidgin, copying the <presence /> stanza it sent when I joined the
room, closing the
room, pasting the stanza into the console, adding the <history /> element and sending it. When I opened the
room again, I had no history. But it all came back the next time!
So: how do I get Pidgin to send the <history /> stanza by default?
