element-hq / element-hq/synapse

Logically should not be able to leave a user who is not in the room

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A-Leave A-Membership O-Uncommon S-Major T-Defect
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Description

This issue has been migrated from [#2498](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2498).

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### Description

This is only possible by doing something weird/manual. It shouldn't come up in normal operation, although I was surprised it was possible.

### Steps to reproduce

- Send a leave event for someone not in the room (and never has been)

I would have expected an error, but instead the event carries through. This confuses some clients (Riot) into thinking someone left the room when in fact they were never there.

### Version information

- **Homeserver**: t2l.io
- **Version**: 0.23.1
- **Install method**: pip
- **Platform**: Ubuntu 16.04 (under an LXC container)

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