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Just reading up on #DeltaChat and it does look interesting as a possible signal alternative. Even deploying your own relay seems easy too. Anybody here using it and has any positive feedback ? I mean share if you've negative too as it'll all be gratefully received by all.

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Mathias
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Mathias
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I use it together with a group of friends. It started off as a test to see how it compared to groups in Signal, but we’ve stayed in DeltaChat as we’ve found it great.

Now for getting more people to use it.

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h4890
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Is it possible to use deltachat with a local imap-folder? Ideally I'd like to use my regular email, and then just have a filter in my email client that moves messages from deltachat to a separate folder. Then, open a deltachat client, point it at that folder and start using it.
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rakoo
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In short: no. DeltaChat is a messenger application that *happens* to use email. It's not a general purpose email manager. There might be ways to do what you want to do but with no guarantees as to whether it's going to work in the long term or not.
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Mathias
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Also, to confuse matters somewhat, it used to be possible to do exactly what you said, so you might even find references to it online.

However, DeltaChat has gone all-in on ChatMail (the underlying protocol/framework) of late it means it only (100%) does encrypted messages (or, I guess, technically "emails"). This can (and will) generate a mess in your inbox/notifications unless you do some ninja on both those things.

When I say "only ChatMail" I at first missed the "old" functionality of being able to use my old/regular email addresses (as I was around when that worked too), but in my personal opinion we have gained so much more, both in security and functionality, in DeltaChat now that I don't mind separating my chatting/messaging from my emailing.

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