Encrypted attachments in regular email

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Hi. I have Delta chat set up on a few different devices with the same email account (but not connected).
I have it set to check all mail, not just chats and use it for regular email. I have prefer end to end encryption off on each device.
Every time I use it I get an encrypted attachment in my regular email.
Anyone else get that? Any idea why? It didn’t use to happen.

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Which version of Delta Chat do you use on each device?

What do you mean by “every time I use it” - every time you send a message or just every time you open the application?

Which mail has an encrypted attachment? The mail that you send out?

Could be a synchronization message for settings, but it should not be sent every time you open the app.

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MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 DeltaChat version 1.44 1 (got: v1.33.0-669-gc878fc787)

iOS 17.4.1 DeltaChat Version 1.44.1

Trying to isolate when it happens, appears to be when selecting “Block” or “Accept” from a new contact, causes an encrypted message to appear in regular email client.

I’ve tried both with “add as a second device” set up and without.

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That’s a synchronisation message for multi device usage then (to sync your contact request accept or block action).

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OK. I guess I’ll have to stop using Delta chat then. I don’t want to be spammed every time I use it.

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or you could use a sane email client like K9Mail (now thunderbird) that allows to disable notifications for self-messages (does it makes sense to get a notification for your own messages anyway???)

but your normal email provider is likely not a good option to use with DeltaChat due to rate limits anyway so it is better to use DC with a dedicated chatmail account

about the sync messages, it makes sense to add an option to disable that sync messages more if you use DC in a single device, if you use it in several then it is unavoidable otherwise the state would not be synchronized in all devices

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It’s not notifications, it’s emails in the inbox.
Rate limits isn’t an issue.
There is no option to sync or not sync messages. Delta chat is only running on one device.