FTR, there is a lot of prior discussion to this, e.g. Subject of emails - #16 by webratte, Random Subject Lines, Subject and Group names · Issue #128 · deltachat/deltachat-core · GitHub, Subject of emails. Then there was a poll, and the result was to go with Message from <sender name>
: [Vote + discussion] First chat message subject
We had this in the past (prefixed with Chat:
), and people didn’t like it.
Two possible ideas to only fix this particular issue, without changing everything else:
- In chats with a green checkmark, always set the subject to “Message sent via Delta Chat” (unlocalized). Green-checkmark-chats are never with classical email users, so the subject doesn’t matter as much.
- Or: In encrypted chats (which mostly are with DC users, but sometimes with classical-MUA-users), use “Message sent via Delta Chat” as the initial subject line, instead of “Message from Bob”. Then, reset the subject line if
SubjectTimestamp
is older than a few weeks, so that the old subject doesn’t stay forever.