Expected behavior A long sent text can be edited. Actual behavior A long sent text cannot be edited.

▶ ~~Looks like this is about editing messages sent a long time ago?~~

No, I’m talking about a long message I just sent — I made a typo in it, but I can’t fix it because long messages can’t be edited. There’s simply no such feature. And about the delay time — why make it so complicated? You’re communicating with a trusted person. Many developers and users somehow assum…

The relevant code: packages/frontend/src/components/message/Message.tsx 18c4250ad // See // - https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues/4695. // - https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues/5365. // - https:/…

Most likely, Delta Chat treats the long message as HTML, so one of the conditions isn’t met.

Delta Chat

Ability to edit a long sent text

Feature Proposal

ian March 24, 2026, 5:01pm 6

Message truncation of edited messages [missing show more button for recipients]

If the user edits a message, and the edited message is long, the receiver sees a truncated version of the message without the “Show more” option which is normally displayed for long messages, but the sender sees the full message displayed correctly in the chat and therefore thinks it was sent correctly. This is an edge case so I maybe it is not worth fixing properly if it needs much effort, but there is a message integrity issue here because the sender and receiver see two different versions of…

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