Serve deltachat via web with a boring http server

Feature Proposal
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Expected behavior

My user story would be:

  1. I download the files intended to run deltachat
  2. I serve it in a URL like https://chat.example.org
  3. I run it with my firefox profile for communications, and I pin tab it

Actual behavior

Looks like it is mandatory to run deltachat-desktop (which might contain an HTTP server). Hence, I am stuck in step one: how to download the intended files to be served in a boring HTTP server? Is it documented?

References (what do others)

matrix: yes

I am aware that element matrix client, allows being used through desktop, but also web:

whatsapp, telegram: yes

They allow web usage (please, here it is out of scope about the “linked device with a QR” feature):

signal: no

signal does not allow to be used outside of its own client, that’s why I don’t use it

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AFAIK for http server be trully boring you need to rewrite GitHub - chatmail/core: Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop apps, bindings and bots 📧 in JScript, or otherwise make is functioning in the web browser. Then you need to adapt a GUI (maybe from Electron desktop DC app).

But maybe Rust core can be runnng on (not so boring) (trusted) server, and web GUI will connect to it… :thinking:

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Running Delta Chat purely in the browser (as a static HTTP site) is currently impossible, because browsers can’t make IMAP / SMTP connections. See

There is a way to run it as a non-static website though, but it’s not intended for production (probably not secure):

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