Just installed @delta and was under the impression that it was email based. I expected to have to put in some email credentials and use my local email server. But instead it created a disconnected profile and just uses IMAP as a transport?
https://delta.chat/en/help does not make clear how this actually works.
Decentralised is a great buzz word, but without better description of how it works makes it difficult to trust.
https://delta.chat/en/help#security-audits doesn't mention architecture, just encryption.
@keverets Tap Create new profile -> Use other server -> Use classic email as relay, there you can enter email credentials of your own server.
@tizianomattei @keverets
There are already more relays,
https://chatmail.at/relays lists some of them. This page is reachable through the "Use other server" option during profile creation. At the end of the page there is a link to https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/ with the documentation on setting up your own relay. You can also use any IMAP+SMTP server, especially if you already have one, but be aware of rate limits and spam filters, and you likely don't want to reuse your existing mailbox for chatting.
I have a list of over 100 relays, there are quite a few out there just not publicly advertised :)
deltachat is using standard imap and smtp. You may use your own address or use an automatically generated one. It doesn't matter. Your identity isn't your address, it's the pgp key that was created when you created the account.
The issue is that you come in with the expectation that deltachat is an email client like all the email clients you know: it is not. You are mapping your knowledge on top of dc instead of looking at it the way it is: a messenging application that uses email protocols. The faq is covering this view
@rakoo you misunderstand my point. I'm not expecting an email client, but I am expecting distributed or self-hosted decentralization which the FAQ does not cover sufficiently.
@keverets@social.librem.one When i started checking it out awhile ago, it was not difficult to use your own mail servers if you wanted to. Since then, they've made that path extremely cumbersome as they want everyone using chatmail servers now. At which point, half of it's selling point, to me, was gone.
Going back to XMPP.