Is there any working two-way-bridge between Deltachat and some other instant messaging network that is already running and in use? I found a lot of discussion about bridges and bots, but no working code (I looked at GitHub - kamax-matrix/matrix-appservice-email: Matrix <--> E-mail Bridge - found via Bridges | Matrix.org - but that appears to be broken and out of active development for 3 years). Matterbridge closed the feature request as out-of-scope ( [Feature] Email support · Issue #513 · 42wim/matterbridge · GitHub ).
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An IRC bot is used on the #deltachat channel in Libera Chat network: GitHub - simplebot-org/simplebot_irc: [WIP] IRC ↔️ DeltaChat bridge
There is also a new Telegram bridge released just a few days ago: GitHub - simplebot-org/simplebot_tgchan: 🌉 Telegram channels subscriptions in Delta Chat
Both are developed by @adbenitez
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there is also:
which can be used to bridge groups, it is similar to the Matrix Telegram relaybot.
There is a running instance that can be used in Telegram the bot is @deltachat_bridge_bot and tgbridge@testrun.org on the Delta Chat side, the help on how to use it to bridge a Telegram an Delta Chat group is on the bot description in Telegram and in the bot help on Delta Chat with the /help command
besides the already mentioned bridges, there is a Mastodon/Fediverse bridge:
and a WriteFreely bridge to publish in WriteFreely blogs:
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Just sent a message to the bot in DeltaChat with ‘/help’ as contents. Got back an unencrypted message like so
the tgbridge@testrun.org bot refers messages to the bridged Tg Group but doesn’t receive anything from the bridged Tg Group? Aynthing I’m missing setting this up?
Have you added the bot: @deltachat_bridge_bot to the Telegram group or channel? Have you added the bot tgbridge@testrun.org to the DC group?
Did you send /id in the Telegram Group or Channel?
You sent in the DC group /bridge number(which returned the /id command)?
Hi, is the tg bot still running? I added it to a tgg room, but it didn’t answer to ˋ/idˋ messages.
hi @youmakeit what bot are you trying to use? I just tested it and it replies fine:
I think I used deltachat_bridge_bot, but for sure it didn’t have the deltachat icon, but a robot icon or something similar, I don’t remember it clearly.
If that should be the correct one, I will try again.
, thanks!
Ok, will try again. Thanks.
It was a matter that the bot didn’t show up if it wasn’t in the contacts list beforehand.
After contacting it, a group could be created.
Thanks for your help.
The Telegram Bridge is offline since 02/11 
Is there a chance it will keep operating?
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for the record, for now I discontinued this bot, it was deprecated using old legacy deltachat lib, I don’t have the capacity to port it right now, maybe I do some crowd-funding/bounty collection if people really want me to do it, otherwise, you are better of with the matterbridge deltachat plugin, you have to self-host it tho
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How much money needs to be raised to make it worth your while?
you would need to make an offer I can’t refuse 
otherwise you could become my monthly supporter in ko-fi and vote for me working on this when I do the next poll about “what should I work on next?” that my supporters get to decide https://ko-fi.com/adbenitez
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