http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3921.html#sub section 6.8 When the user removes a contact from his or her roster by setting the 'subscription' attribute to a value of "remove", the user's server (1) MUST automatically cancel any existing presence subscription between the user and the contact (both 'to' and 'from' as appropriate); (2) MUST remove the roster item from the user's roster and inform all of the user's available resources that have requested the roster of the roster item removal; (3) MUST inform the resource that initiated the removal of success; and (4) SHOULD send unavailable presence from all of the user's available resources to the contact:

• tags Milestone-0.10

From the current RFC: http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html#sub-cancel-outbound "…the contact's server MUST route or deliver both presence notifications of type "unavailable" and presence stanzas of type "unsubscribed" to the user and MUST send a roster push to the contact."

Odd, wouldn't http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html#roster-delete be the relevant section here?

• title [RFC3921] removing an item from roster does not notify contact Removing an item from roster does not send unavailable to contact

Prosody does indeed not send unavailable presence. This seems to be simply because mod_roster does not set the 'preevents' flag. If that is changed, mod_presence takes care of it.

• tags Status-Accepted Difficulty-Easy

However, that sends a bunch of roster pushes for intermediate states. But duplicating the presence broadcast code from mod_presence in mod_roster wouldn't be right.

• tags Status-Started
• owner MattJ Zash

Fixed in http://hg.prosody.im/0.10/rev/ba32289e8d0b

• tags Status-Fixed