I‘m about to switch my email provider. Is it possible to keep the chat history and use the chats given that the counterparty stays identical?

Changing relays is possible with 2.33+ releases. I wrote this howto on how to migrate to another relay: [image] How to migrate your profile to another relay Tips and Tricks Let’s say you have initially created a profile on the default relay and want to migrate away from i…

Not perfect yet*, but I did this once with the steps outlined here: Introducing Automatic E-mail Address Porting (AEAP) - Delta Chat * you need to write to your peers so that they get your new address, also you should tell your old provider to redirect incoming mail to your new provider to don’t mi…

I will need to switch off my old email account, no-forwarding from then on. Are you saying if I write to other DC users they will reply to the new address already?

This will work automatically if group chats have green checkmarks. For chats without green checkmarks this will not work automatically, you need to add new address to these groups before changing your address, then remove old address from groups after changing your email address in Delta Chat. 1:1 …

will something like this be enabled again? changing email does say “check in a few months” so hopefully… i want to change email providers but keep encryption keys (forwarding the old email, as mentioned). i have chatmail and traditional, seeking solution in the latter case

hi @io4w5 we are working on this, it will take some more months until available

Change of email service can I keep messages

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Changing relays is possible with 2.33+ releases.

I wrote this howto on how to migrate to another relay: