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Delta Chat : Send encrypted e-mails easly (delta.chat)

submitted 5 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. You do not have to sign up anywhere, just use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 years ago

Installed! Using protonmail already, but with Delta, I can use the space of my Gmail account, and annoy Google with encrypted message content... 😆

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 years ago (1 children)

A weird chat solution. The community should promote well-established chat solutions like irc, xmpp, and probably matrix in the future

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 years ago (1 children)

I also use xmpp, irc and matrix ^^ What I like about DeltaChat is that it uses an existing infrastructure that everyone has, e-mail. And with autocrypt, even novices can use encryption.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 years ago (1 children)

For me, a real chat application run in the background and gives you message at any time. I don't know if delta-chat run in the background but it seems a weird solution. But if you are happy with it, why not. ( For info, app xmpp 'conversation' running in the background is only 10M RAM)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 years ago

DeltaChat uses push mail, it sends messages directly from the server to the phone. I don't oppose xmpp to deltachat it's different technological solutions. I just share the link to this project which I think is great. Most people are sending unencrypted emails. At least with deltachat they're encrypted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Also, wondering about the following:

why the client is imitating WhatsApp?
why there's no system tray on Linux and I can even remember a discussion that it's not needed?
why the desktop app top menu looks like a menu of a foreign wrapper?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

why there’s no system tray on Linux and I can even remember a discussion that it’s not needed?

it is an old reply, but for the new readers: system tray was implemented time ago, the desktop version haa improved a lot,

why the client is imitating WhatsApp?

it is not imitating WhatsApp in particular but a messenger app, and that is the whole point of the project, being a "chat by e-mail" app, a new approach to managing and displaying email, if you prefer the classic inbox clients then just use them, you don't have to use Delta Chat to communicate with other Delta Chat users the same way you don't have to use Thunderbird just because your peers do