Device Contacts option missing w/ Chatmail

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Delta Chat version 1.46.2

Expected behavior

Well if you are using a classic email account, there is an option in the settings that enables/disables Deltachat to look at the device’s contacts and make people’s names and photos inside Deltachat to match those in the system contacts.

Actual behavior

If you are using a chatmail account, the option is gone. I wonder whether there is a reason for this.

Steps to reproduce the problem

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the reason is that with chatmail, you can only write encrypted messages - which is doable as described eg. at Instant Onboarding and Instant Message Delivery - Delta Chat

offering random addresses from the addressbook, that probably do not use deltachat, seemed not to be helpful - at least on the first iteration, we did not see a usecase and removed the option for chatmail at hide IMAP folder options on chatmail by r10s · Pull Request #3050 · deltachat/deltachat-android · GitHub

to be clear: the option is still available when using a classic email address as a profile.