Read receipts in the main mail box (and not in a specific folder)

[Simon]

deltachat can only move received email into the Deltachat map folder when it is active, If you want a better experience, then you either need a deltachat that is running all the time, or even better a server side filter rule that your email provider already sorts the chat-email into the deltachat folder automatically.

New messages cause notifications in mail clients

There is no thing DeltaChat could do differently (if it doesn’t run in the background and gets the message first to move it there is nothing we could do differently), you need a server-side filter rule or a dedicated email account for deltachat. Or enable “show emails:all” and use deltachat as only email client, if that is enough for your usecase. see Sieve rule to move DeltaChat mails to DeltaChat folder Also some email clients allow you to ignore deltachat messages in their settings (such a…