Option to disable rate limiting for a specific user

[turt2live]

Moderation bots shouldn't be rate limited because they might have to deal with high volumes of spam.

[richvdh]

you can poke things into the ratelimit_override table for this.

[turt2live]

That should be documented somewhere. It's not even a footnote in the synapse docs.

[Cadair]

It would also be nice if this was exposed either in the config, or even better through the admin API.

[refi64]

For a nice TLDR answer for those of us that were a bit confused what exactly to do: you need the full user name (e.g. @mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat) of Mjolnir's user. Then enter synapse's database table that you configured and run:

insert into ratelimit_override values ("@mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat", 0, 0);

where @mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat is the full username mentioned above.

[clokep]

Thanks @refi64! Any chance you'd want to add some of this information to the documentation? I didn't find anywhere off-hand to add it quickly though...

[refi64]

Don't have a ton of time for that atm, but I'll keep that in mind!

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[cremesk]

For a nice TLDR answer for those of us that were a bit confused what exactly to do: you need the full user name (e.g. @mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat) of Mjolnir's user. Then enter synapse's database table that you configured and run:

insert into ratelimit_override values ("@mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat", 0, 0);

where @mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat is the full username mentioned above.

the insert into needs single quotes!

@tulir double quotes in SQL means column, single quotes mean string value

insert into ratelimit_override values ('@mjolnir:my-homeserver.chat', 0, 0);

[K1D77A]

This worked for me but afterwards the server required a restart for the changes to take place.

[K1D77A]

This seems to have disabled the rate limiting for sending messages but it hasn't removed the rate limiting for sending invites.

[richvdh]

This seems to have disabled the rate limiting for sending messages but it hasn't removed the rate limiting for sending invites.

this will be fixed by #9711

[richvdh]

... and the lack of documentation will be fixed by #9648