Ability to send multiple files

[MadTooth]

Can you remove the limit on the number of files you can send to a message ?

[hagi]

Other people are more qualified to reply, but my first thought is that having multiple files attached to one message could more easily reach the file size limit of your mail provider.

[darhma]

I agree that the ability to send multiple attachments in a single message would be a great thing, but apparently it is not easy to implement:

Feature Proposal: Multiple Attachments in one message

Hello, first of all: I love the deltachat & i think it is really good work so far! If it only would have been there before all that WhatsApp Nonsense ! I am really determinend to convince more and more of my friends to switch to it, because it’s the best greatest common divisor of all IMs. So now my Feature Proposal. I’ve scanned through the ‘List of Feature Proposals’ but I couldn’t explicitly find the one that bothers me the most: Sending multiple attachments in one messag…

Multiple images in one message

Expected behavior Multiple images can be selected to be sent at once. They are then displayed as a small gallery in the chat history, similar to Telegram or WhatsApp. Actual behavior Only one image can be selected and sent at a time. Explanation Users often want to send multiple images. Unfortunately, it is very tedious if you can only send them individually. They also need a lot of space in the chat history. Therefore it would be good if you could send several at once and then show them comp…

[Raiden]

Perhaps one could assume that all email providers allow at least 5 MiB attachments.
DC could calculate the total size of files and warn if they exceed 5 MiB.
Unfortunately, I don’t know if that would mean a lot of development effort.
But it would certainly be a big improvement, especially for sending photos.

However, there is a workaround. It is possible to send multiple attachments with another email client using the DC account. The client needs to support Autocrypt for verified chats and Chatmail accounts. Without Autocrypt, the encryption is temporarily suspended for “normal” accounts.

[Simon]

it’s not just simply removing a limit, it needs data structure, database layout, code & api and UI -changes.