Hey, I’m facing the following challenge.
Notifications from a home-automation device get sent via email to a regular email server based DC account because a chatmail account would not work. Now, I would like to autoforward the messages to a chatmail based account. Makes sense?
Can this be done?
How exactly chatmail account does not work? Messages are not received by chatmail server because you don’t control the sending server and it does not properly DKIM-sign the messages?
yes, it’s missing a proper DKIM record – uberspace.de it is
so, now I got an email with a valid DKIM record (checked it with mxtool box) but still the mail doesn’t land in the chatmail account. Does it need autocrypt?
No, currently chatmail accounts either accept incoming mail or reject it with a clear SMTP error saying that DKIM signature is missing: 554 5.7.1 No valid DKIM signature found.
Encryption is currently only enforced for outgoing messages. There are some discussions about requiring encryption for incoming mail, and https://arcanechat.me/ server is patched to require encryption for incoming mail. Unencrypted mails is not really an encouraged usecase for chatmail because it is in conflict with the goal of having as little (meta)data for the server operators to care about as possible.
Doesn’t it work for you to have a second profile to receive automated plaintext mail? Do you want to receive these messages in chatmail because you want to have only one chatlist view, because you want push notifications, or something else?
the uberspace SMTP (for a custom domain) i’m using has a valid DKIM record it’s sending via port 465, I checked that. Mails still do not arrive, I currently would not know if there’s an SMTP log somewhere for it.
And, I (we) currently have a second profile, it’s fine for me, but not for the more regular users, they don’t get the idea (or necessity) of switching accounts, it’s bad UX, for them. This setup is both about - ephemeric – notifications from a home/office automation setup and communication, ideally this should work in one profile.
PS: should I receive notifications here in DC - I authenticated with DC ?
I guess, I’m beginning to see the light, there’s Setting/Advanced/Show Classic E-Mails …
