Changing the password of a chatmail account

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@DELTA_MAFIA

I’m sure this question might have come up before, but I couldn’t find it.

Here it is:

View and change account password

It seems there is no easy way to view or change the account password in the Delta Chat app. There is a “Password and Account” option in the settings, but if I understand it correctly this is only useful if you have already changed your account password in a different email client and now want to update this in the Delta Chat app. Moreover the password field is masked and there is option to toggle the visibility. It would good to have a toggle for the password visibility (maybe after entering t…

@DELTA_MAFIA

Using a chatmail account, is it possible to change the password?

Not unless you are also the administrator of the server.

@DELTA_MAFIA

Even worse, what if a scammer logs in first and changes the password themselves?

They can’t change the password. Nobody can change the password except the chatmail provider. So if a scammer gains access to your account, they can’t lock you out, but I guess they could perform a denial of service attack by deleting your messages or do a message replay attack.

If you don’t use Delta Chat for a few months, then your account can expire and a scammer could in theory steal your address, but I doubt they could do anything malicious with that (like steal your identity) unless they also have your encryption keys and your contacts.