Always accept all mails as chat by contact

[testbird]

Your problems with deltachat seem absolutely understandable. I’m afraid the current options don’t serve for expanding the use-cases. The options need to be slightly refactored to be able to actually allow adjusting to different use-cases…

I did actually contribute a quite extensive analysis with descriptions of solutions to no avail.
But your topic mostly seems to touch these:

More useful "reachable by" chat interaction setting

Currently, users are not reachable by email, there is only the option to “show emails”. The “show emails” option has not been a good fit, neither for closed chat-clients-only user groups, nor the average user that also knows some email contacts. The reason is that it is not actually adjusting the reachability, it neither allows to reduce nor expand it as needed for the use-case. I think a slight adaption would improve the “show emails” option a lot for all users. Even without any of further cu…

Classic email listening: "start-chat" metrics for classic email client messages (max. length & newlines)

Hi there, formal emails have at least 4 newline characters, thus less newlines could identify start-chat email messages, together with a reduced max. character limit of say 250. This “email text” post, for example, has 344 characters, should it prompt a “Start chat?” question, by default, if the “cheers and name” are on a single line instead? Cheers, testbird I would say above message is too long for considering it a chat candidate, by default, even if the greeting at the end would only be …

Why would you think one needs to permanently route all emails from a contact to deltachat?
I see the permanent message grabbing as a (current) problem that interferes with regular email communication (and something to be obsoleted by a reasonable chat metric + visible email counter).