Open ara4n opened 6 years ago
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2713#issuecomment-691480736 gives another possible solution to this: if the servers in the room send lone membership events to the invited server, then the invited server will know who to send device_list updates to.
In other words, the invited server has a read-only participation in the DAG despite not being joined, to a very limited extent, as if it were doing MSC2444 peeking in the room filtered to membership events.
If you invite a user to an E2E chat, you have no way of being told when its device list changes as it is not yet participating in the room. As a result, any added devices won't be encrypted for. Options to fix this include:
Related to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3503.
This has been split out from https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2713#issuecomment-402989021.