Subject of emails

we’ve just merged a pull-requests that targets the subject-things discussed here in this thread - thanks @all for contributing!) -

changes at a glance:

  • in group-chats, the subject is set to the group-name
  • the subject in one-to-one-chats is unchanged

it’s a simple rule now: group-name is the subject.

these changes allows Delta Chat users to send e-mails that look and behave like normal emails. the flow is nothing new: create group, set group-name, add members, send message.

a big advantage over extra controls or so (that i would really hate btw) is that the answers and subsequent messages get grouped together - in both, Delta Chat and in the traditional user agents. this won’t be easily the case when setting the subject per-message; things would probably just get more complex and harder to understand.

so, all in all, this does not change anything for pure Delta Chat users but offer a way to interact more nicely with traditional clients.

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