Suggestion about classic mail [better visualization for writing long texts]

[Marcos]

Since I started using DeltaChat, I have been using it as my primary app for both instant messaging with friends and as my default email client.

It is very convenient to send/receive emails and review the entire history within a single chat interface. However, when composing a “classic” email in DeltaChat Desktop, the composing area feels a bit limited. Specifically, it is difficult to visualize the entire message when writing long texts, as the UI doesn’t scale well for long-form content.

Previously, this wasn’t a major issue because emails sent from other standard mail apps or webmail were automatically loaded into DeltaChat. However, after recent updates, DeltaChat no longer seems to monitor the “Sent” folder on the server, so those external messages don’t appear in the chat history anymore.

I am aware that DeltaChat is primarily focused on being an instant messaging app. Nonetheless, I believe it would be very useful to add a setting or a UI improvement in DeltaChat Desktop for “classic email” composition to allow for better visualization of long texts.

[Minim]

It would be nice if there was a icon to make the mobile compose field larger, as there is on this forum, and perhaps a draggable chat-compose boundary on desktop.

If you don’t mind using two clients in parallel, it is also possible to use any Autocrypt-compatible mailclient and have it interoperate with DC:

Trad mailclient UI

Query/Request Are there any Deltachat clients that can display messages like a conventional mail client, with an inbox, drafts, filters, folders etc.? Ideally I’d like a desktop client where I can set some accounts to have a chat UI, and others to have an epistolary UI. Two separate clients would also be fine. Reasons Chat is nice, but sometimes you want to send a long-form letter, especially when the recipient is on a very different sleep schedule. Ideally, I’d communicate with the same fri…

Some other mailclients also have fairly chatlike threaded views.

[Minim]

I should add that in DeltaTouch (a fully-intercompatible Linux Chatmail client using the same backend), the mobile compose field automatically expands to be up to three lines deep, and an expand-arrow button appears if there are three or more lines. The button fullscreens the compose window on mobile. Deltatouch is convergent and may do something a bit different on desktop.

Depending on your operating system, this might be a possibility.

ArcaneChat, yet another fully-intercompatible Chatmail client, also has an E-mail Composer WebXDC app, accessed thhrough “+” menu>Apps>Tools.