Hey Lemmy!

Exactly as the title says.

I’m a user, not a server admin, so this is about deleting messages I’ve sent rather than cleaning old messages on a server. Ideally I’m looking for a script which I can run on a timer once a day, and each time it runs, it will delete all my messages, or my messages in some specified rooms, that are older than say two weeks. Basically an automated finger that presses the delete button repeatedly.

I know about m.room.retention but I don’t want to have to set it for every room. And it doesn’t seem to be reliable; it doesn’t work in a matrix.org test room I set up with one minute retention. Even when I cleared the cache.

The closest I’ve found is this branch, but as this issue mentioned, it purges all messages rather than only messages older than X time.

If no one has a better script, I’ll write one myself or fork the above script. But in case anyone here’s already gone to the trouble… I won’t have to learn the Matrix API :)