What are the main obstacles for you to adopt usage of #deltachat apps with your families, friends or communities?

if you have other issues than the poll options please add to the replies. Oh, and those who are also living through heat waves: stay hydrated, and remind everyone else :)

In which i write a short letter to @matthew highlighting key architectural issues of decentralized secure messaging covering #Matrix, #Signal and #deltachat / #chatmail

https://lobste.rs/s/muk05v/reflections_on_matrix_criticism_over#c_1sijfo

Помните, я недавно просил помочь с тестированием #DeltaChat? Ну отозвавшиеся наверняка помнят. Тогда мы получили довольно странные результаты. Решив раз и навсегда понять, что происходит, я достал свой старый, любимый, надёжный как пулемёт Максим, смартфон OnePlus 7T. Поставил на него и на мой текущий смартфон (OnePlus 10 Pro) DeltaChat и стал регистрироваться на разных chatmail-серверах и на разных почтовых серверах и сравнивать результаты.

В общем, если говорить коротко, обнаружилось, что DC на OnePlus 10 Pro не может подключиться ни к одному почтовому серверу по SMTP!!!. К любому chatmail-серверу подключается на ура.
OnePlus 7T отлично подключается к чему угодно.

Я вообще не могу представить, почему такое может происходить, но результат исследования однозначен — у меня новый адрес DC.

Oszustwa finansowe i „na wnuczka”Przestępcy podszywają się pod bliskich lub pracowników instytucji i proszą o pilne przekazanie pieniędzy.

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We do not aim for #deltachat to be another social media app. No #ai summaries or suggestions. No public directory of contacts. No discovery via outside identifiers (mobile phone or email). Just you and your contacts privately messaging, in a solid simple user interface on all platforms. End-to-End encryption enforced on two layers. #chatmail relays know and retain nothing, no content or metadata. #webxdc apps allow for custom interactions on top of chats.

Contributors and donations welcome!

I think the biggest thing I want in #DeltaChat is a "unified inbox" where, unless I specifically exclude it, chats for all of my profiles are listed. Any duplicate contacts would show the profile icon on the list, and if I have multiple accounts in the same group for some reason, it would let me switch between them in the composer.

Seems like it would be rather simple? There's probably some implementation detail I'm missing.

(For a more advanced implementation: you'd be able to start with one easy unified inbox, and make other unified inboxes if you need to, selecting and deselecting as you see fit. Mostly the idea would be you can have multiple personal ones, multiple work ones, maybe a few for volunteer groups: maybe some of them use an online name, maybe you have a deadname on one profile and a chosen name on another, maybe you have individual profiles for each group you join... So you might have your personal ones grouped, your work ones grouped, and your volunteer ones grouped... but for most people, myself included, a singular unified inbox with exclusion should work just fine!)

@Cnoceda explains his way of using @delta and org-mode for collecting things on the go:
https://cnoceda.com/tecnologia/posts/20250615T191346--delta-chat-and-org-mode__blog_tecnologia.html

He adapts the deltachat inbox bot to his needs, just like the free software gods intended. Great stuff!

Just published my post on DeltaChat and Orgmode ️ It’s long, but I felt it had to be this way. In the future I’ll be adding new features and will keep you posted.
https://cnoceda.com/tecnologia/posts/20250615T191346--delta-chat-and-org-mode__blog_tecnologia.html
Now let's go for a coffee at my favorite spot — I’ve earned it!
Have a great Sunday!

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live but late to toot:

* Slow updates? There's a reason, or
* Don't be surveilled, engage in our research
* Using #Calyx #CalyxOS? Read now!
* #DeltaChat hits v2, #ArcaneChat soon™
* #NeoStore finally upgrades to Index-V2
* #NewPipe in your ? Maybe...
* #Wesnoth is back
& 164 more updates
- 4 apps archived

Saturday reading break: https://f-droid.org/2025/08/07/twif.html

On #why2025? Join us in the @delta chatroom
https://wiki.why2025.org/Session:Delta_Chat_online_try-out

Animada pel que he llegit per aquí, m'he baixat #deltachat. Aviam com va!

No hi ha res que pugui fer un administrador d'un servidor #chatmail (#DeltaChat) per a desxifrar els missatges que passen a través del seu servidor. Els missatges es xifren en els dispositius dels usuaris, el servidor chatmail només fa de transport dels mateixos. I l'aplicació DeltaChat xifra tot per defecte, no és configurable, no es pot desactivar el xifrat.
Ningú pot demanar a un administrador d'un servidor chatmail els continguts dels missatges perquè no pot fer res de res.

Signal and Matrix were founded in popular opposition to the email system but End-to-End encrypted instant messaging via emails works now, and reliably, with #deltachat V2 app releases, and with #chatmail relays forming a growing secure email network that minimizes metadata and enforces TLS and E2EE messaging.

You can't really argue with working code, can you?

Contrary to popular belief SMTP and DKIM and IMAP are no holy ingredients and can be improved upon btw. See eg https://github.com/chatmail/relay/issues/487

Ataki hakerskie i kradzież tożsamościNieostrożność w udostępnianiu danych może prowadzić do przejęcia konta lub kradzieży tożsamości.

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DeltaTouch v2.9.0 is out, bringing the security upgrade as described in the Delta Chat blog https://delta.chat/en/2025-08-04-encryption-v2

Some UI changes such as shortcuts to recently used apps in chats are still to be implemented in DeltaTouch, but all the security/encryption related points in the blog post apply to DeltaTouch as well.

Version numbering has been aligned with the official clients, see https://chaos.social/@delta/114972264530346684

Several people noticed and wonder about our new #deltachat version numbering scheme: it changed for all apps! #chatmail Core rust library uses 2.X with incrementing X. And apps use 2.X.Y with Y being a numbered release for a core version. Therefore, any app release embeds the core library version which is helpful for understanding and debugging interoperability issues between clients. Others pointed out this is close to "pride versioning" ... We are fine with that :) https://pridever.org/