The developers’ latest ridiculous idea: removing the setting for automatically deleting old messages from the server. Now I have to manually visit the webmail site to delete messages older than a month myself—just to keep my mailbox from getting blocked due to being full.

If you use single-device only (or if you have disappearing messages enabled), your messages will already be deleted. I think the better proposal would be to delete messages from the server immediately after all of your devices have fetched them.

Really? I had no idea. But what if I have multiple devices?

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[image] ian: If you use single-device only (or if you have disappearing messages enabled), your messages will already be deleted. This will be in 2.51. In 2.50 they are not deleted even in single-device mode. For single-device we have now fixed it and the fix will be in 2.51: nauta.cu has ver…

Use disappearing messages for each conversation

You are free to use disappearing messages yourself—whether via SMS, the Russian messenger Max, WhatsApp, or whatever else. But please, give us the ability to use Delta Chat without having to worry that our inbox will fill up—as used to happen before you decided to remove that setting. You must have…

to be clear: chatmail, what most ppl are using, still deletes old messages. single-device or multi-device. only for the already advanced usecase of “classic email as relay” plus multi-device, the deletion now needs to be configured on the server, and not on the client. or done manually. or one can …

Automatically deleting old messages [from the server]

Feature Proposal

ian May 29, 2026, 10:13am 4

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