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@adbenitez

we are not absorbing the email community, people at large keep using email as usual and most people don’t even know Delta Chat exist while they use their classic email clients.
But we are a chat app, not an email client, and even if we completely become incompatible with classic email clients, that doesn’t matter because the use case was always chatting

I came to Deltachat because I was looking for an e-mail client (for mobile Linux, encryption-capable). To me, the biggest selling point of Deltachat is actually compliance with open standards and interoperability.

Ease-of-use is second (there are lots of easy-to-use proprietary systems). Deltachat means I can swap encrypted mails with people who do not know what an encryption key is.

The chat format is a mild downside to me: it discourages long-form letters and encourages short chat messages. Which is fine, but I like long-form letters, so I’m not using DC for a lot of mails, especially if my correspondant does know what an encryption key is . Many mailclients also now have more chatlike threaded views.

I think Deltachat could absorb the e-mail community if it had a client with a more traditional UI:

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…

I also suspect that a traditional mailclient implementing free Chatmail accouts, plus SecureJoin and/or WKD, would see a strong increase in popularity. Though the entire DC backend offers much more than just that!