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Post #3293490

2026-05-26 21:31 UTC

Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with #chatmail or #deltachat. It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a #p2p fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a federated e2ee-restricted SMTP network. A chat profile or chat group has zero data on the server. It's radically different from classic email servers, Whatsapp, Signal, XMPP and Matrix servers which host and control chat identity.

Replies (7)

  • @delta@chaos.social I really like the concept but have zero energy to convince my peers to switch to a new platform/technology Maybe some day

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  • @tael@yiff.life 2026-05-26 22:39

    @delta@chaos.social so what's different between this and https://tox.chat/?

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  • @nihkeys@mastodontti.fi 2026-05-27 06:36

    @delta@chaos.social Is there a technical architectural document about the system somewhere? I've tried finding one already couple of times but search engines are not liking my queries for this. A self-contained blog article would be also fine 🙂

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  • @delta@chaos.social Yes, the more direct the path, less chances for interception.

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  • @alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2026-06-14 21:48

    @delta@chaos.social I know of two difficult edge cases for p2p designs. Can two people exchange messages if they are not online at the same time? Can one person receive the same message on more than one device?

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  • @eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja 2026-06-14 22:21

    What happens if you change the email address you use then...?

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  • @mario@merveilles.town 2026-06-15 01:30

    @delta@chaos.social i missed the transition toward chatmail relays, my old "account" was still setup in the original fashion. This relay-model sound similar to nostr, no? Nodes are key-pairs that send encrypted messages to 1 or more (dumb) relays and receivers pull those messages from relays?

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