The privacy-oriented e-mail app Threema offers users the ability to create surveys for members of a group - a very useful feature if you want to poll members on a topic.
I think this could be a quite useful feature. Is this something that is under consideration?
Well, I think you guys are missing the point. I am talking about groups in DC, ie members have opted in and are all using DC. Not the use of DC as a general mail client - although I don’t see why it could not be used there as well. I do not want to see any gratuitous “marketing” messages.
In the former scenario, the poll can be on anything on when to have a meeting, what to discuss etc etc. In other words, members are already committed to the purpose of the group and its activities.
Again, Threema, a privacy-dedicated e-mail client has that feature, as does Telegram. Possibly others as well which I do not know anything about.
No, the special feature is that DC allows encrypted communication utilizing an IMAP backend. That requires DC (or compatible encryption software) on the other end.
For non-encrypted messaging using IMAP backend any messaging frontend will do.