First of all you can find other feature proposals regarding this on the ( feature proposal list under “dc ↔ mua interactions” section)
Subject line:
For each topic you use? Like selecting or typing in a topic for each message you sent? That’s to complicated to use for normal dc users.
I think putting the group name in the subject could solve it, but there is an entire thread devoted to this topic.
Don’t notify email users of audit actions:
For group name and image I can understand this, but for user list changes I don’t get your point, because it defeats the purpose of groups. For Example:
I make an group for planning a party/meetup with email contacts. After a few weeks I add someone that just joined the organization efforts so they can get the messages too. If I DC doesn’t notify my email contacts about this, then they won’t know that he ever joined and the messages from them never reach him.
Maybe we should change the wording so it isn’t perceived as spam.
Maybe other chattypes like broadcasts are what you are looking for. New feature: Group Types
Broadcast messages (for later version after 1.0 release)
Also you can tell them if they don’t have the app it’s annoying. (Letters and Chatmesages are still two different means of communication) Also it isn’t unlikely that new email clients will have some ways to handle those emails in a more beautiful way because of OX’s COI standard…
Respond to subject line:
This also belongs to Subject of emails - #73 by testbird.
Anyways tell your friends to turn on threads/thread-view in their email client, this makes conversations easier to follow.(some do this already, in others like thunderbird you need to turn it on)
Delta chat already uses headers that email clients use to determine that it’s an answer to another email. (AFAIK)
Extra handling for “classic email ↔ deltachat” case:
For now we like as less as possible of this to keep the code simple to prevent having to deal with many bugs.
But I agree that somethings like locations shouldn’t be sent to email contacts.
We don’t aim to support manual subjects as DC isn’t meant to be an full email client - It’s primarily a messenger. Also such a second box is disrupting the user experience. If you still want that feature, fell free to fork the project and modify it to do that. If you have a magical way that to include a subject line without disrupting user experience I’d like to hear about it.
Pro tip: when we have group topic as subject you can just create groups with only you and them for this effect… but that probably needs some UI to allow creating groups with only 2 without creating a group of 3 and removing the person 3 from it before sending the first message 