Auto create account on desktop client start

Feature Proposal
1

Hi,

it would be nice to have an auto create account command line options on the desktop client. It should auto create an account on a server, if there does not already exist an account on that server without opening a window and then exit:

deltachat --auto-create-server delta.example.com --auto-create-username "Mr. X"

This would improve deploying the client in small business environments: The command could be run on user login. Users could just start the desktop client afterwards and would be ready to go.

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2

Sounds interesting, but how would you then get in contact with the people you want to contact? That still requires action.

3

Well, did not think about it, yet.

Maybe:

deltachat --auto-create-server delta.example.com --auto-create-username "Mr. X" --auto-create-publish-contact "https://i.delta.chat/#3..." --auto-create-get-contacts-url "https://contacts.delta.example.com/contacts.txt"

–auto-create-publish-contact: after creating the account, send the account url to specified contact (an admin)
–auto-create-get-contacts-url: download a text file with one contact link per line and import them. Text file can be updated by an admin.

4

It might be simpler then to just expose the whole Core API (JSON-RPC: RawClient | @deltachat/jsonrpc-client).

5

Or just write a small script which prepares the accounts directory how you want to have it.
Could use the jsonrpc API (via deltachat-rpc-server) to set up the accounts and then just move them to where delta chat desktop expects them.

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