# The config is maintained as an up-to-date snapshot of the default # homeserver.yaml configuration generated by Synapse. # # It is intended to act as a reference for the default configuration, # helping admins keep track of new options and other changes, and compare # their configs with the current default. As such, many of the actual # config values shown are placeholders. # # It is *not* intended to be copied and used as the basis for a real # homeserver.yaml. Instead, if you are starting from scratch, please generate # a fresh config using Synapse by following the instructions in INSTALL.md. ## Server ## # The domain name of the server, with optional explicit port. # This is used by remote servers to connect to this server, # e.g. matrix.org, localhost:8080, etc. # This is also the last part of your UserID. # server_name: "SERVERNAME" # When running as a daemon, the file to store the pid in # pid_file: DATADIR/homeserver.pid # The path to the web client which will be served at /_matrix/client/ # if 'webclient' is configured under the 'listeners' configuration. # #web_client_location: "/path/to/web/root" # The public-facing base URL that clients use to access this HS # (not including _matrix/...). This is the same URL a user would # enter into the 'custom HS URL' field on their client. If you # use synapse with a reverse proxy, this should be the URL to reach # synapse via the proxy. # #public_baseurl: https://example.com/ # Set the soft limit on the number of file descriptors synapse can use # Zero is used to indicate synapse should set the soft limit to the # hard limit. # #soft_file_limit: 0 # Set to false to disable presence tracking on this homeserver. # #use_presence: false # Whether to require authentication to retrieve profile data (avatars, # display names) of other users through the client API. Defaults to # 'false'. Note that profile data is also available via the federation # API, so this setting is of limited value if federation is enabled on # the server. # #require_auth_for_profile_requests: true # If set to 'false', requires authentication to access the server's public rooms # directory through the client API. Defaults to 'true'. # #allow_public_rooms_without_auth: false # If set to 'false', forbids any other homeserver to fetch the server's public # rooms directory via federation. Defaults to 'true'. # #allow_public_rooms_over_federation: false # The default room version for newly created rooms. # # Known room versions are listed here: # https://matrix.org/docs/spec/#complete-list-of-room-versions # # For example, for room version 1, default_room_version should be set # to "1". # #default_room_version: "5" # The GC threshold parameters to pass to `gc.set_threshold`, if defined # #gc_thresholds: [700, 10, 10] # Set the limit on the returned events in the timeline in the get # and sync operations. The default value is -1, means no upper limit. # #filter_timeline_limit: 5000 # Whether room invites to users on this server should be blocked # (except those sent by local server admins). The default is False. # #block_non_admin_invites: true # Room searching # # If disabled, new messages will not be indexed for searching and users # will receive errors when searching for messages. Defaults to enabled. # #enable_search: false # Restrict federation to the following whitelist of domains. # N.B. we recommend also firewalling your federation listener to limit # inbound federation traffic as early as possible, rather than relying # purely on this application-layer restriction. If not specified, the # default is to whitelist everything. # #federation_domain_whitelist: # - lon.example.com # - nyc.example.com # - syd.example.com # Prevent federation requests from being sent to the following # blacklist IP address CIDR ranges. If this option is not specified, or # specified with an empty list, no ip range blacklist will be enforced. # # As of Synapse v1.4.0 this option also affects any outbound requests to identity # servers provided by user input. # # (0.0.0.0 and :: are always blacklisted, whether or not they are explicitly # listed here, since they correspond to unroutable addresses.) # federation_ip_range_blacklist: - '127.0.0.0/8' - '10.0.0.0/8' - '172.16.0.0/12' - '192.168.0.0/16' - '100.64.0.0/10' - '169.254.0.0/16' - '::1/128' - 'fe80::/64' - 'fc00::/7' # List of ports that Synapse should listen on, their purpose and their # configuration. # # Options for each listener include: # # port: the TCP port to bind to # # bind_addresses: a list of local addresses to listen on. The default is # 'all local interfaces'. # # type: the type of listener. Normally 'http', but other valid options are: # 'manhole' (see docs/manhole.md), # 'metrics' (see docs/metrics-howto.md), # 'replication' (see docs/workers.md). # # tls: set to true to enable TLS for this listener. Will use the TLS # key/cert specified in tls_private_key_path / tls_certificate_path. # # x_forwarded: Only valid for an 'http' listener. Set to true to use the # X-Forwarded-For header as the client IP. Useful when Synapse is # behind a reverse-proxy. # # resources: Only valid for an 'http' listener. A list of resources to host # on this port. Options for each resource are: # # names: a list of names of HTTP resources. See below for a list of # valid resource names. # # compress: set to true to enable HTTP comression for this resource. # # additional_resources: Only valid for an 'http' listener. A map of # additional endpoints which should be loaded via dynamic modules. # # Valid resource names are: # # client: the client-server API (/_matrix/client), and the synapse admin # API (/_synapse/admin). Also implies 'media' and 'static'. # # consent: user consent forms (/_matrix/consent). See # docs/consent_tracking.md. # # federation: the server-server API (/_matrix/federation). Also implies # 'media', 'keys', 'openid' # # keys: the key discovery API (/_matrix/keys). # # media: the media API (/_matrix/media). # # metrics: the metrics interface. See docs/metrics-howto.md. # # openid: OpenID authentication. # # replication: the HTTP replication API (/_synapse/replication). See # docs/workers.md. # # static: static resources under synapse/static (/_matrix/static). (Mostly # useful for 'fallback authentication'.) # # webclient: A web client. Requires web_client_location to be set. # listeners: # TLS-enabled listener: for when matrix traffic is sent directly to synapse. # # Disabled by default. To enable it, uncomment the following. (Note that you # will also need to give Synapse a TLS key and certificate: see the TLS section # below.) # #- port: 8448 # type: http # tls: true # resources: # - names: [client, federation] # Unsecure HTTP listener: for when matrix traffic passes through a reverse proxy # that unwraps TLS. # # If you plan to use a reverse proxy, please see # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/reverse_proxy.md. # - port: 8008 tls: false type: http x_forwarded: true bind_addresses: ['::1', '127.0.0.1'] resources: - names: [client, federation] compress: false # example additional_resources: # #additional_resources: # "/_matrix/my/custom/endpoint": # module: my_module.CustomRequestHandler # config: {} # Turn on the twisted ssh manhole service on localhost on the given # port. # #- port: 9000 # bind_addresses: ['::1', '127.0.0.1'] # type: manhole ## Homeserver blocking ## # How to reach the server admin, used in ResourceLimitError # #admin_contact: 'mailto:admin@server.com' # Global blocking # #hs_disabled: false #hs_disabled_message: 'Human readable reason for why the HS is blocked' # Monthly Active User Blocking # # Used in cases where the admin or server owner wants to limit to the # number of monthly active users. # # 'limit_usage_by_mau' disables/enables monthly active user blocking. When # anabled and a limit is reached the server returns a 'ResourceLimitError' # with error type Codes.RESOURCE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED # # 'max_mau_value' is the hard limit of monthly active users above which # the server will start blocking user actions. # # 'mau_trial_days' is a means to add a grace period for active users. It # means that users must be active for this number of days before they # can be considered active and guards against the case where lots of users # sign up in a short space of time never to return after their initial # session. # # 'mau_limit_alerting' is a means of limiting client side alerting # should the mau limit be reached. This is useful for small instances # where the admin has 5 mau seats (say) for 5 specific people and no # interest increasing the mau limit further. Defaults to True, which # means that alerting is enabled # #limit_usage_by_mau: false #max_mau_value: 50 #mau_trial_days: 2 #mau_limit_alerting: false # If enabled, the metrics for the number of monthly active users will # be populated, however no one will be limited. If limit_usage_by_mau # is true, this is implied to be true. # #mau_stats_only: false # Sometimes the server admin will want to ensure certain accounts are # never blocked by mau checking. These accounts are specified here. # #mau_limit_reserved_threepids: # - medium: 'email' # address: 'reserved_user@example.com' # Used by phonehome stats to group together related servers. #server_context: context # Resource-constrained homeserver Settings # # If limit_remote_rooms.enabled is True, the room complexity will be # checked before a user joins a new remote room. If it is above # limit_remote_rooms.complexity, it will disallow joining or # instantly leave. # # limit_remote_rooms.complexity_error can be set to customise the text # displayed to the user when a room above the complexity threshold has # its join cancelled. # # Uncomment the below lines to enable: #limit_remote_rooms: # enabled: true # complexity: 1.0 # complexity_error: "This room is too complex." # Whether to require a user to be in the room to add an alias to it. # Defaults to 'true'. # #require_membership_for_aliases: false # Whether to allow per-room membership profiles through the send of membership # events with profile information that differ from the target's global profile. # Defaults to 'true'. # #allow_per_room_profiles: false # How long to keep redacted events in unredacted form in the database. After # this period redacted events get replaced with their redacted form in the DB. # # Defaults to `7d`. Set to `null` to disable. # #redaction_retention_period: 28d # How long to track users' last seen time and IPs in the database. # # Defaults to `28d`. Set to `null` to disable clearing out of old rows. # #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 ## # PEM-encoded X509 certificate for TLS. # This certificate, as of Synapse 1.0, will need to be a valid and verifiable # certificate, signed by a recognised Certificate Authority. # # See 'ACME support' below to enable auto-provisioning this certificate via # Let's Encrypt. # # If supplying your own, be sure to use a `.pem` file that includes the # full certificate chain including any intermediate certificates (for # instance, if using certbot, use `fullchain.pem` as your certificate, # not `cert.pem`). # #tls_certificate_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.tls.crt" # PEM-encoded private key for TLS # #tls_private_key_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.tls.key" # Whether to verify TLS server certificates for outbound federation requests. # # Defaults to `true`. To disable certificate verification, uncomment the # following line. # #federation_verify_certificates: false # The minimum TLS version that will be used for outbound federation requests. # # Defaults to `1`. Configurable to `1`, `1.1`, `1.2`, or `1.3`. Note # that setting this value higher than `1.2` will prevent federation to most # of the public Matrix network: only configure it to `1.3` if you have an # entirely private federation setup and you can ensure TLS 1.3 support. # #federation_client_minimum_tls_version: 1.2 # Skip federation certificate verification on the following whitelist # of domains. # # This setting should only be used in very specific cases, such as # federation over Tor hidden services and similar. For private networks # of homeservers, you likely want to use a private CA instead. # # Only effective if federation_verify_certicates is `true`. # #federation_certificate_verification_whitelist: # - lon.example.com # - *.domain.com # - *.onion # List of custom certificate authorities for federation traffic. # # This setting should only normally be used within a private network of # homeservers. # # Note that this list will replace those that are provided by your # operating environment. Certificates must be in PEM format. # #federation_custom_ca_list: # - myCA1.pem # - myCA2.pem # - myCA3.pem # ACME support: This will configure Synapse to request a valid TLS certificate # for your configured `server_name` via Let's Encrypt. # # Note that provisioning a certificate in this way requires port 80 to be # routed to Synapse so that it can complete the http-01 ACME challenge. # By default, if you enable ACME support, Synapse will attempt to listen on # port 80 for incoming http-01 challenges - however, this will likely fail # with 'Permission denied' or a similar error. # # There are a couple of potential solutions to this: # # * If you already have an Apache, Nginx, or similar listening on port 80, # you can configure Synapse to use an alternate port, and have your web # server forward the requests. For example, assuming you set 'port: 8009' # below, on Apache, you would write: # # ProxyPass /.well-known/acme-challenge http://localhost:8009/.well-known/acme-challenge # # * Alternatively, you can use something like `authbind` to give Synapse # permission to listen on port 80. # acme: # ACME support is disabled by default. Set this to `true` and uncomment # tls_certificate_path and tls_private_key_path above to enable it. # enabled: false # Endpoint to use to request certificates. If you only want to test, # use Let's Encrypt's staging url: # https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/directory # #url: https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory # Port number to listen on for the HTTP-01 challenge. Change this if # you are forwarding connections through Apache/Nginx/etc. # port: 80 # Local addresses to listen on for incoming connections. # Again, you may want to change this if you are forwarding connections # through Apache/Nginx/etc. # bind_addresses: ['::', '0.0.0.0'] # How many days remaining on a certificate before it is renewed. # reprovision_threshold: 30 # The domain that the certificate should be for. Normally this # should be the same as your Matrix domain (i.e., 'server_name'), but, # by putting a file at 'https://<server_name>/.well-known/matrix/server', # you can delegate incoming traffic to another server. If you do that, # you should give the target of the delegation here. # # For example: if your 'server_name' is 'example.com', but # 'https://example.com/.well-known/matrix/server' delegates to # 'matrix.example.com', you should put 'matrix.example.com' here. # # If not set, defaults to your 'server_name'. # domain: matrix.example.com # file to use for the account key. This will be generated if it doesn't # exist. # # If unspecified, we will use CONFDIR/client.key. # account_key_file: DATADIR/acme_account.key # List of allowed TLS fingerprints for this server to publish along # with the signing keys for this server. Other matrix servers that # make HTTPS requests to this server will check that the TLS # certificates returned by this server match one of the fingerprints. # # Synapse automatically adds the fingerprint of its own certificate # to the list. So if federation traffic is handled directly by synapse # then no modification to the list is required. # # If synapse is run behind a load balancer that handles the TLS then it # will be necessary to add the fingerprints of the certificates used by # the loadbalancers to this list if they are different to the one # synapse is using. # # Homeservers are permitted to cache the list of TLS fingerprints # returned in the key responses up to the "valid_until_ts" returned in # key. It may be necessary to publish the fingerprints of a new # certificate and wait until the "valid_until_ts" of the previous key # responses have passed before deploying it. # # You can calculate a fingerprint from a given TLS listener via: # openssl s_client -connect $host:$port < /dev/null 2> /dev/null | # openssl x509 -outform DER | openssl sha256 -binary | base64 | tr -d '=' # or by checking matrix.org/federationtester/api/report?server_name=$host # #tls_fingerprints: [{"sha256": "<base64_encoded_sha256_fingerprint>"}] ## Database ## database: # The database engine name name: "sqlite3" # Arguments to pass to the engine args: # Path to the database database: "DATADIR/homeserver.db" # Number of events to cache in memory. # #event_cache_size: 10K ## Logging ## # A yaml python logging config file as described by # https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/logging.config.html#configuration-dictionary-schema # log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config" ## Ratelimiting ## # Ratelimiting settings for client actions (registration, login, messaging). # # Each ratelimiting configuration is made of two parameters: # - per_second: number of requests a client can send per second. # - burst_count: number of requests a client can send before being throttled. # # Synapse currently uses the following configurations: # - one for messages that ratelimits sending based on the account the client # is using # - one for registration that ratelimits registration requests based on the # client's IP address. # - one for login that ratelimits login requests based on the client's IP # address. # - one for login that ratelimits login requests based on the account the # client is attempting to log into. # - one for login that ratelimits login requests based on the account the # client is attempting to log into, based on the amount of failed login # attempts for this account. # - one for ratelimiting redactions by room admins. If this is not explicitly # set then it uses the same ratelimiting as per rc_message. This is useful # to allow room admins to deal with abuse quickly. # # The defaults are as shown below. # #rc_message: # per_second: 0.2 # burst_count: 10 # #rc_registration: # per_second: 0.17 # burst_count: 3 # #rc_login: # address: # per_second: 0.17 # burst_count: 3 # account: # per_second: 0.17 # burst_count: 3 # failed_attempts: # per_second: 0.17 # burst_count: 3 # #rc_admin_redaction: # per_second: 1 # burst_count: 50 # Ratelimiting settings for incoming federation # # The rc_federation configuration is made up of the following settings: # - window_size: window size in milliseconds # - sleep_limit: number of federation requests from a single server in # a window before the server will delay processing the request. # - sleep_delay: duration in milliseconds to delay processing events # from remote servers by if they go over the sleep limit. # - reject_limit: maximum number of concurrent federation requests # allowed from a single server # - concurrent: number of federation requests to concurrently process # from a single server # # The defaults are as shown below. # #rc_federation: # window_size: 1000 # sleep_limit: 10 # sleep_delay: 500 # reject_limit: 50 # concurrent: 3 # Target outgoing federation transaction frequency for sending read-receipts, # per-room. # # If we end up trying to send out more read-receipts, they will get buffered up # into fewer transactions. # #federation_rr_transactions_per_room_per_second: 50 ## Media Store ## # Enable the media store service in the Synapse master. Uncomment the # following if you are using a separate media store worker. # #enable_media_repo: false # Directory where uploaded images and attachments are stored. # media_store_path: "DATADIR/media_store" # Media storage providers allow media to be stored in different # locations. # #media_storage_providers: # - module: file_system # # Whether to write new local files. # store_local: false # # Whether to write new remote media # store_remote: false # # Whether to block upload requests waiting for write to this # # provider to complete # store_synchronous: false # config: # directory: /mnt/some/other/directory # Directory where in-progress uploads are stored. # uploads_path: "DATADIR/uploads" # The largest allowed upload size in bytes # #max_upload_size: 10M # Maximum number of pixels that will be thumbnailed # #max_image_pixels: 32M # Whether to generate new thumbnails on the fly to precisely match # the resolution requested by the client. If true then whenever # a new resolution is requested by the client the server will # generate a new thumbnail. If false the server will pick a thumbnail # from a precalculated list. # #dynamic_thumbnails: false # List of thumbnails to precalculate when an image is uploaded. # #thumbnail_sizes: # - width: 32 # height: 32 # method: crop # - width: 96 # height: 96 # method: crop # - width: 320 # height: 240 # method: scale # - width: 640 # height: 480 # method: scale # - width: 800 # height: 600 # method: scale # Is the preview URL API enabled? # # 'false' by default: uncomment the following to enable it (and specify a # url_preview_ip_range_blacklist blacklist). # #url_preview_enabled: true # List of IP address CIDR ranges that the URL preview spider is denied # from accessing. There are no defaults: you must explicitly # specify a list for URL previewing to work. You should specify any # internal services in your network that you do not want synapse to try # to connect to, otherwise anyone in any Matrix room could cause your # synapse to issue arbitrary GET requests to your internal services, # causing serious security issues. # # (0.0.0.0 and :: are always blacklisted, whether or not they are explicitly # listed here, since they correspond to unroutable addresses.) # # This must be specified if url_preview_enabled is set. It is recommended that # you uncomment the following list as a starting point. # #url_preview_ip_range_blacklist: # - '127.0.0.0/8' # - '10.0.0.0/8' # - '172.16.0.0/12' # - '192.168.0.0/16' # - '100.64.0.0/10' # - '169.254.0.0/16' # - '::1/128' # - 'fe80::/64' # - 'fc00::/7' # List of IP address CIDR ranges that the URL preview spider is allowed # to access even if they are specified in url_preview_ip_range_blacklist. # This is useful for specifying exceptions to wide-ranging blacklisted # target IP ranges - e.g. for enabling URL previews for a specific private # website only visible in your network. # #url_preview_ip_range_whitelist: # - '192.168.1.1' # Optional list of URL matches that the URL preview spider is # denied from accessing. You should use url_preview_ip_range_blacklist # in preference to this, otherwise someone could define a public DNS # entry that points to a private IP address and circumvent the blacklist. # This is more useful if you know there is an entire shape of URL that # you know that will never want synapse to try to spider. # # Each list entry is a dictionary of url component attributes as returned # by urlparse.urlsplit as applied to the absolute form of the URL. See # https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html#urlparse.urlsplit # The values of the dictionary are treated as an filename match pattern # applied to that component of URLs, unless they start with a ^ in which # case they are treated as a regular expression match. If all the # specified component matches for a given list item succeed, the URL is # blacklisted. # #url_preview_url_blacklist: # # blacklist any URL with a username in its URI # - username: '*' # # # blacklist all *.google.com URLs # - netloc: 'google.com' # - netloc: '*.google.com' # # # blacklist all plain HTTP URLs # - scheme: 'http' # # # blacklist http(s)://www.acme.com/foo # - netloc: 'www.acme.com' # path: '/foo' # # # blacklist any URL with a literal IPv4 address # - netloc: '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' # The largest allowed URL preview spidering size in bytes # #max_spider_size: 10M ## Captcha ## # See docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP for full details of configuring this. # This homeserver's ReCAPTCHA public key. # #recaptcha_public_key: "YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY" # This homeserver's ReCAPTCHA private key. # #recaptcha_private_key: "YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY" # Enables ReCaptcha checks when registering, preventing signup # unless a captcha is answered. Requires a valid ReCaptcha # public/private key. # #enable_registration_captcha: false # A secret key used to bypass the captcha test entirely. # #captcha_bypass_secret: "YOUR_SECRET_HERE" # The API endpoint to use for verifying m.login.recaptcha responses. # #recaptcha_siteverify_api: "https://www.recaptcha.net/recaptcha/api/siteverify" ## TURN ## # The public URIs of the TURN server to give to clients # #turn_uris: [] # The shared secret used to compute passwords for the TURN server # #turn_shared_secret: "YOUR_SHARED_SECRET" # The Username and password if the TURN server needs them and # does not use a token # #turn_username: "TURNSERVER_USERNAME" #turn_password: "TURNSERVER_PASSWORD" # How long generated TURN credentials last # #turn_user_lifetime: 1h # Whether guests should be allowed to use the TURN server. # This defaults to True, otherwise VoIP will be unreliable for guests. # However, it does introduce a slight security risk as it allows users to # connect to arbitrary endpoints without having first signed up for a # valid account (e.g. by passing a CAPTCHA). # #turn_allow_guests: true ## Registration ## # # Registration can be rate-limited using the parameters in the "Ratelimiting" # section of this file. # Enable registration for new users. # #enable_registration: false # Optional account validity configuration. This allows for accounts to be denied # any request after a given period. # # ``enabled`` defines whether the account validity feature is enabled. Defaults # to False. # # ``period`` allows setting the period after which an account is valid # after its registration. When renewing the account, its validity period # will be extended by this amount of time. This parameter is required when using # the account validity feature. # # ``renew_at`` is the amount of time before an account's expiry date at which # Synapse will send an email to the account's email address with a renewal link. # This needs the ``email`` and ``public_baseurl`` configuration sections to be # filled. # # ``renew_email_subject`` is the subject of the email sent out with the renewal # link. ``%(app)s`` can be used as a placeholder for the ``app_name`` parameter # from the ``email`` section. # # Once this feature is enabled, Synapse will look for registered users without an # expiration date at startup and will add one to every account it found using the # current settings at that time. # This means that, if a validity period is set, and Synapse is restarted (it will # then derive an expiration date from the current validity period), and some time # after that the validity period changes and Synapse is restarted, the users' # expiration dates won't be updated unless their account is manually renewed. This # date will be randomly selected within a range [now + period - d ; now + period], # where d is equal to 10% of the validity period. # #account_validity: # enabled: true # period: 6w # renew_at: 1w # renew_email_subject: "Renew your %(app)s account" # # Directory in which Synapse will try to find the HTML files to serve to the # # user when trying to renew an account. Optional, defaults to # # synapse/res/templates. # template_dir: "res/templates" # # HTML to be displayed to the user after they successfully renewed their # # account. Optional. # account_renewed_html_path: "account_renewed.html" # # HTML to be displayed when the user tries to renew an account with an invalid # # renewal token. Optional. # invalid_token_html_path: "invalid_token.html" # Time that a user's session remains valid for, after they log in. # # Note that this is not currently compatible with guest logins. # # Note also that this is calculated at login time: changes are not applied # retrospectively to users who have already logged in. # # By default, this is infinite. # #session_lifetime: 24h # The user must provide all of the below types of 3PID when registering. # #registrations_require_3pid: # - email # - msisdn # Explicitly disable asking for MSISDNs from the registration # flow (overrides registrations_require_3pid if MSISDNs are set as required) # #disable_msisdn_registration: true # Mandate that users are only allowed to associate certain formats of # 3PIDs with accounts on this server. # #allowed_local_3pids: # - medium: email # pattern: '.*@matrix\.org' # - medium: email # pattern: '.*@vector\.im' # - medium: msisdn # pattern: '\+44' # Enable 3PIDs lookup requests to identity servers from this server. # #enable_3pid_lookup: true # If set, allows registration of standard or admin accounts by anyone who # has the shared secret, even if registration is otherwise disabled. # # registration_shared_secret: <PRIVATE STRING> # Set the number of bcrypt rounds used to generate password hash. # Larger numbers increase the work factor needed to generate the hash. # The default number is 12 (which equates to 2^12 rounds). # N.B. that increasing this will exponentially increase the time required # to register or login - e.g. 24 => 2^24 rounds which will take >20 mins. # #bcrypt_rounds: 12 # Allows users to register as guests without a password/email/etc, and # participate in rooms hosted on this server which have been made # accessible to anonymous users. # #allow_guest_access: false # The identity server which we suggest that clients should use when users log # in on this server. # # (By default, no suggestion is made, so it is left up to the client. # This setting is ignored unless public_baseurl is also set.) # #default_identity_server: https://matrix.org # The list of identity servers trusted to verify third party # identifiers by this server. # # Also defines the ID server which will be called when an account is # deactivated (one will be picked arbitrarily). # # Note: This option is deprecated. Since v0.99.4, Synapse has tracked which identity # server a 3PID has been bound to. For 3PIDs bound before then, Synapse runs a # background migration script, informing itself that the identity server all of its # 3PIDs have been bound to is likely one of the below. # # As of Synapse v1.4.0, all other functionality of this option has been deprecated, and # it is now solely used for the purposes of the background migration script, and can be # removed once it has run. #trusted_third_party_id_servers: # - matrix.org # - vector.im # Handle threepid (email/phone etc) registration and password resets through a set of # *trusted* identity servers. Note that this allows the configured identity server to # reset passwords for accounts! # # Be aware that if `email` is not set, and SMTP options have not been # configured in the email config block, registration and user password resets via # email will be globally disabled. # # Additionally, if `msisdn` is not set, registration and password resets via msisdn # will be disabled regardless. This is due to Synapse currently not supporting any # method of sending SMS messages on its own. # # To enable using an identity server for operations regarding a particular third-party # identifier type, set the value to the URL of that identity server as shown in the # examples below. # # Servers handling the these requests must answer the `/requestToken` endpoints defined # by the Matrix Identity Service API specification: # https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/latest # # If a delegate is specified, the config option public_baseurl must also be filled out. # account_threepid_delegates: #email: https://example.com # Delegate email sending to example.com #msisdn: http://localhost:8090 # Delegate SMS sending to this local process # Users who register on this homeserver will automatically be joined # to these rooms # #auto_join_rooms: # - "#example:example.com" # Where auto_join_rooms are specified, setting this flag ensures that the # the rooms exist by creating them when the first user on the # homeserver registers. # Setting to false means that if the rooms are not manually created, # users cannot be auto-joined since they do not exist. # #autocreate_auto_join_rooms: true ## Metrics ### # Enable collection and rendering of performance metrics # #enable_metrics: false # Enable sentry integration # NOTE: While attempts are made to ensure that the logs don't contain # any sensitive information, this cannot be guaranteed. By enabling # this option the sentry server may therefore receive sensitive # information, and it in turn may then diseminate sensitive information # through insecure notification channels if so configured. # #sentry: # dsn: "..." # Flags to enable Prometheus metrics which are not suitable to be # enabled by default, either for performance reasons or limited use. # metrics_flags: # Publish synapse_federation_known_servers, a g auge of the number of # servers this homeserver knows about, including itself. May cause # performance problems on large homeservers. # #known_servers: true # Whether or not to report anonymized homeserver usage statistics. # report_stats: true|false # The endpoint to report the anonymized homeserver usage statistics to. # Defaults to https://matrix.org/report-usage-stats/push # #report_stats_endpoint: https://example.com/report-usage-stats/push ## API Configuration ## # A list of event types that will be included in the room_invite_state # #room_invite_state_types: # - "m.room.join_rules" # - "m.room.canonical_alias" # - "m.room.avatar" # - "m.room.encryption" # - "m.room.name" # A list of application service config files to use # #app_service_config_files: # - app_service_1.yaml # - app_service_2.yaml # Uncomment to enable tracking of application service IP addresses. Implicitly # enables MAU tracking for application service users. # #track_appservice_user_ips: true # a secret which is used to sign access tokens. If none is specified, # the registration_shared_secret is used, if one is given; otherwise, # a secret key is derived from the signing key. # # macaroon_secret_key: <PRIVATE STRING> # a secret which is used to calculate HMACs for form values, to stop # falsification of values. Must be specified for the User Consent # forms to work. # # form_secret: <PRIVATE STRING> ## Signing Keys ## # Path to the signing key to sign messages with # signing_key_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.signing.key" # The keys that the server used to sign messages with but won't use # to sign new messages. E.g. it has lost its private key # #old_signing_keys: # "ed25519:auto": # # Base64 encoded public key # key: "The public part of your old signing key." # # Millisecond POSIX timestamp when the key expired. # expired_ts: 123456789123 # How long key response published by this server is valid for. # Used to set the valid_until_ts in /key/v2 APIs. # Determines how quickly servers will query to check which keys # are still valid. # #key_refresh_interval: 1d # The trusted servers to download signing keys from. # # When we need to fetch a signing key, each server is tried in parallel. # # Normally, the connection to the key server is validated via TLS certificates. # Additional security can be provided by configuring a `verify key`, which # will make synapse check that the response is signed by that key. # # This setting supercedes an older setting named `perspectives`. The old format # is still supported for backwards-compatibility, but it is deprecated. # # 'trusted_key_servers' defaults to matrix.org, but using it will generate a # warning on start-up. To suppress this warning, set # 'suppress_key_server_warning' to true. # # Options for each entry in the list include: # # server_name: the name of the server. required. # # verify_keys: an optional map from key id to base64-encoded public key. # If specified, we will check that the response is signed by at least # one of the given keys. # # accept_keys_insecurely: a boolean. Normally, if `verify_keys` is unset, # and federation_verify_certificates is not `true`, synapse will refuse # to start, because this would allow anyone who can spoof DNS responses # to masquerade as the trusted key server. If you know what you are doing # and are sure that your network environment provides a secure connection # to the key server, you can set this to `true` to override this # behaviour. # # An example configuration might look like: # #trusted_key_servers: # - server_name: "my_trusted_server.example.com" # verify_keys: # "ed25519:auto": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmopqr" # - server_name: "my_other_trusted_server.example.com" # trusted_key_servers: - server_name: "matrix.org" # Uncomment the following to disable the warning that is emitted when the # trusted_key_servers include 'matrix.org'. See above. # #suppress_key_server_warning: true # The signing keys to use when acting as a trusted key server. If not specified # defaults to the server signing key. # # Can contain multiple keys, one per line. # #key_server_signing_keys_path: "key_server_signing_keys.key" # Enable SAML2 for registration and login. Uses pysaml2. # # At least one of `sp_config` or `config_path` must be set in this section to # enable SAML login. # # (You will probably also want to set the following options to `false` to # disable the regular login/registration flows: # * enable_registration # * password_config.enabled # # Once SAML support is enabled, a metadata file will be exposed at # https://<server>:<port>/_matrix/saml2/metadata.xml, which you may be able to # use to configure your SAML IdP with. Alternatively, you can manually configure # the IdP to use an ACS location of # https://<server>:<port>/_matrix/saml2/authn_response. # saml2_config: # `sp_config` is the configuration for the pysaml2 Service Provider. # See pysaml2 docs for format of config. # # Default values will be used for the 'entityid' and 'service' settings, # so it is not normally necessary to specify them unless you need to # override them. # #sp_config: # # point this to the IdP's metadata. You can use either a local file or # # (preferably) a URL. # metadata: # #local: ["saml2/idp.xml"] # remote: # - url: https://our_idp/metadata.xml # # # By default, the user has to go to our login page first. If you'd like # # to allow IdP-initiated login, set 'allow_unsolicited: true' in a # # 'service.sp' section: # # # #service: # # sp: # # allow_unsolicited: true # # # The examples below are just used to generate our metadata xml, and you # # may well not need them, depending on your setup. Alternatively you # # may need a whole lot more detail - see the pysaml2 docs! # # description: ["My awesome SP", "en"] # name: ["Test SP", "en"] # # organization: # name: Example com # display_name: # - ["Example co", "en"] # url: "http://example.com" # # contact_person: # - given_name: Bob # sur_name: "the Sysadmin" # email_address": ["admin@example.com"] # contact_type": technical # Instead of putting the config inline as above, you can specify a # separate pysaml2 configuration file: # #config_path: "CONFDIR/sp_conf.py" # the lifetime of a SAML session. This defines how long a user has to # complete the authentication process, if allow_unsolicited is unset. # The default is 5 minutes. # #saml_session_lifetime: 5m # The SAML attribute (after mapping via the attribute maps) to use to derive # the Matrix ID from. 'uid' by default. # #mxid_source_attribute: displayName # The mapping system to use for mapping the saml attribute onto a matrix ID. # Options include: # * 'hexencode' (which maps unpermitted characters to '=xx') # * 'dotreplace' (which replaces unpermitted characters with '.'). # The default is 'hexencode'. # #mxid_mapping: dotreplace # In previous versions of synapse, the mapping from SAML attribute to MXID was # always calculated dynamically rather than stored in a table. For backwards- # compatibility, we will look for user_ids matching such a pattern before # creating a new account. # # This setting controls the SAML attribute which will be used for this # backwards-compatibility lookup. Typically it should be 'uid', but if the # attribute maps are changed, it may be necessary to change it. # # The default is 'uid'. # #grandfathered_mxid_source_attribute: upn # Enable CAS for registration and login. # #cas_config: # enabled: true # server_url: "https://cas-server.com" # service_url: "https://homeserver.domain.com:8448" # #displayname_attribute: name # #required_attributes: # # name: value # The JWT needs to contain a globally unique "sub" (subject) claim. # #jwt_config: # enabled: true # secret: "a secret" # algorithm: "HS256" password_config: # Uncomment to disable password login # #enabled: false # Uncomment to disable authentication against the local password # database. This is ignored if `enabled` is false, and is only useful # if you have other password_providers. # #localdb_enabled: false # Uncomment and change to a secret random string for extra security. # DO NOT CHANGE THIS AFTER INITIAL SETUP! # #pepper: "EVEN_MORE_SECRET" # Enable sending emails for password resets, notification events or # account expiry notices # # If your SMTP server requires authentication, the optional smtp_user & # smtp_pass variables should be used # #email: # enable_notifs: false # smtp_host: "localhost" # smtp_port: 25 # SSL: 465, STARTTLS: 587 # smtp_user: "exampleusername" # smtp_pass: "examplepassword" # require_transport_security: false # # # notif_from defines the "From" address to use when sending emails. # # It must be set if email sending is enabled. # # # # The placeholder '%(app)s' will be replaced by the application name, # # which is normally 'app_name' (below), but may be overridden by the # # Matrix client application. # # # # Note that the placeholder must be written '%(app)s', including the # # trailing 's'. # # # notif_from: "Your Friendly %(app)s homeserver <noreply@example.com>" # # # app_name defines the default value for '%(app)s' in notif_from. It # # defaults to 'Matrix'. # # # #app_name: my_branded_matrix_server # # # Enable email notifications by default # # # notif_for_new_users: true # # # Defining a custom URL for Riot is only needed if email notifications # # should contain links to a self-hosted installation of Riot; when set # # the "app_name" setting is ignored # # # riot_base_url: "http://localhost/riot" # # # Configure the time that a validation email or text message code # # will expire after sending # # # # This is currently used for password resets # # # #validation_token_lifetime: 1h # # # Template directory. All template files should be stored within this # # directory. If not set, default templates from within the Synapse # # package will be used # # # # For the list of default templates, please see # # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates # # # #template_dir: res/templates # # # Templates for email notifications # # # notif_template_html: notif_mail.html # notif_template_text: notif_mail.txt # # # Templates for account expiry notices # # # expiry_template_html: notice_expiry.html # expiry_template_text: notice_expiry.txt # # # Templates for password reset emails sent by the homeserver # # # #password_reset_template_html: password_reset.html # #password_reset_template_text: password_reset.txt # # # Templates for registration emails sent by the homeserver # # # #registration_template_html: registration.html # #registration_template_text: registration.txt # # # Templates for validation emails sent by the homeserver when adding an email to # # your user account # # # #add_threepid_template_html: add_threepid.html # #add_threepid_template_text: add_threepid.txt # # # Templates for password reset success and failure pages that a user # # will see after attempting to reset their password # # # #password_reset_template_success_html: password_reset_success.html # #password_reset_template_failure_html: password_reset_failure.html # # # Templates for registration success and failure pages that a user # # will see after attempting to register using an email or phone # # # #registration_template_success_html: registration_success.html # #registration_template_failure_html: registration_failure.html # # # Templates for success and failure pages that a user will see after attempting # # to add an email or phone to their account # # # #add_threepid_success_html: add_threepid_success.html # #add_threepid_failure_html: add_threepid_failure.html #password_providers: # - module: "ldap_auth_provider.LdapAuthProvider" # config: # enabled: true # uri: "ldap://ldap.example.com:389" # start_tls: true # base: "ou=users,dc=example,dc=com" # attributes: # uid: "cn" # mail: "email" # name: "givenName" # #bind_dn: # #bind_password: # #filter: "(objectClass=posixAccount)" # Clients requesting push notifications can either have the body of # the message sent in the notification poke along with other details # like the sender, or just the event ID and room ID (`event_id_only`). # If clients choose the former, this option controls whether the # notification request includes the content of the event (other details # like the sender are still included). For `event_id_only` push, it # has no effect. # # For modern android devices the notification content will still appear # because it is loaded by the app. iPhone, however will send a # notification saying only that a message arrived and who it came from. # #push: # include_content: true #spam_checker: # module: "my_custom_project.SuperSpamChecker" # config: # example_option: 'things' # Uncomment to allow non-server-admin users to create groups on this server # #enable_group_creation: true # If enabled, non server admins can only create groups with local parts # starting with this prefix # #group_creation_prefix: "unofficial/" # User Directory configuration # # 'enabled' defines whether users can search the user directory. If # false then empty responses are returned to all queries. Defaults to # true. # # 'search_all_users' defines whether to search all users visible to your HS # when searching the user directory, rather than limiting to users visible # in public rooms. Defaults to false. If you set it True, you'll have to # rebuild the user_directory search indexes, see # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/user_directory.md # #user_directory: # enabled: true # search_all_users: false # User Consent configuration # # for detailed instructions, see # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/consent_tracking.md # # Parts of this section are required if enabling the 'consent' resource under # 'listeners', in particular 'template_dir' and 'version'. # # 'template_dir' gives the location of the templates for the HTML forms. # This directory should contain one subdirectory per language (eg, 'en', 'fr'), # and each language directory should contain the policy document (named as # '<version>.html') and a success page (success.html). # # 'version' specifies the 'current' version of the policy document. It defines # the version to be served by the consent resource if there is no 'v' # parameter. # # 'server_notice_content', if enabled, will send a user a "Server Notice" # asking them to consent to the privacy policy. The 'server_notices' section # must also be configured for this to work. Notices will *not* be sent to # guest users unless 'send_server_notice_to_guests' is set to true. # # 'block_events_error', if set, will block any attempts to send events # until the user consents to the privacy policy. The value of the setting is # used as the text of the error. # # 'require_at_registration', if enabled, will add a step to the registration # process, similar to how captcha works. Users will be required to accept the # policy before their account is created. # # 'policy_name' is the display name of the policy users will see when registering # for an account. Has no effect unless `require_at_registration` is enabled. # Defaults to "Privacy Policy". # #user_consent: # template_dir: res/templates/privacy # version: 1.0 # server_notice_content: # msgtype: m.text # body: >- # To continue using this homeserver you must review and agree to the # terms and conditions at %(consent_uri)s # send_server_notice_to_guests: true # block_events_error: >- # To continue using this homeserver you must review and agree to the # terms and conditions at %(consent_uri)s # require_at_registration: false # policy_name: Privacy Policy # # Local statistics collection. Used in populating the room directory. # # 'bucket_size' controls how large each statistics timeslice is. It can # be defined in a human readable short form -- e.g. "1d", "1y". # # 'retention' controls how long historical statistics will be kept for. # It can be defined in a human readable short form -- e.g. "1d", "1y". # # #stats: # enabled: true # bucket_size: 1d # retention: 1y # Server Notices room configuration # # Uncomment this section to enable a room which can be used to send notices # from the server to users. It is a special room which cannot be left; notices # come from a special "notices" user id. # # If you uncomment this section, you *must* define the system_mxid_localpart # setting, which defines the id of the user which will be used to send the # notices. # # It's also possible to override the room name, the display name of the # "notices" user, and the avatar for the user. # #server_notices: # system_mxid_localpart: notices # system_mxid_display_name: "Server Notices" # system_mxid_avatar_url: "mxc://server.com/oumMVlgDnLYFaPVkExemNVVZ" # room_name: "Server Notices" # Uncomment to disable searching the public room list. When disabled # blocks searching local and remote room lists for local and remote # users by always returning an empty list for all queries. # #enable_room_list_search: false # The `alias_creation` option controls who's allowed to create aliases # on this server. # # The format of this option is a list of rules that contain globs that # match against user_id, room_id and the new alias (fully qualified with # server name). The action in the first rule that matches is taken, # which can currently either be "allow" or "deny". # # Missing user_id/room_id/alias fields default to "*". # # If no rules match the request is denied. An empty list means no one # can create aliases. # # Options for the rules include: # # user_id: Matches against the creator of the alias # alias: Matches against the alias being created # room_id: Matches against the room ID the alias is being pointed at # action: Whether to "allow" or "deny" the request if the rule matches # # The default is: # #alias_creation_rules: # - user_id: "*" # alias: "*" # room_id: "*" # action: allow # The `room_list_publication_rules` option controls who can publish and # which rooms can be published in the public room list. # # The format of this option is the same as that for # `alias_creation_rules`. # # If the room has one or more aliases associated with it, only one of # the aliases needs to match the alias rule. If there are no aliases # then only rules with `alias: *` match. # # If no rules match the request is denied. An empty list means no one # can publish rooms. # # Options for the rules include: # # user_id: Matches agaisnt the creator of the alias # room_id: Matches against the room ID being published # alias: Matches against any current local or canonical aliases # associated with the room # action: Whether to "allow" or "deny" the request if the rule matches # # The default is: # #room_list_publication_rules: # - user_id: "*" # alias: "*" # room_id: "*" # action: allow # Server admins can define a Python module that implements extra rules for # allowing or denying incoming events. In order to work, this module needs to # override the methods defined in synapse/events/third_party_rules.py. # # This feature is designed to be used in closed federations only, where each # participating server enforces the same rules. # #third_party_event_rules: # module: "my_custom_project.SuperRulesSet" # config: # example_option: 'things' ## Opentracing ## # These settings enable opentracing, which implements distributed tracing. # This allows you to observe the causal chains of events across servers # including requests, key lookups etc., across any server running # synapse or any other other services which supports opentracing # (specifically those implemented with Jaeger). # opentracing: # tracing is disabled by default. Uncomment the following line to enable it. # #enabled: true # The list of homeservers we wish to send and receive span contexts and span baggage. # See docs/opentracing.rst # This is a list of regexes which are matched against the server_name of the # homeserver. # # By defult, it is empty, so no servers are matched. # #homeserver_whitelist: # - ".*" # Jaeger can be configured to sample traces at different rates. # All configuration options provided by Jaeger can be set here. # Jaeger's configuration mostly related to trace sampling which # is documented here: # https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.13/sampling/. # #jaeger_config: # sampler: # type: const # param: 1 # Logging whether spans were started and reported # # logging: # false