The messenger – Delta Chat – Email Based Instant Messenger; based on IMAP push
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/18
[WayBack] The messenger – Delta Chat: Delta Chat – Email Based Instant Messenger
From the FAQ at [WayBack] Help – Delta Chat:
What are the advantages of Delta Chat compared to other messengers?
- Independent of any company or services. You own your data.
- Your data are not saved on a central server; this way, in contrast to most other messengers, Delta Chat even protects your metadata (who writes to whom?)
- You do not distribute your address book to anyone.
- Fast by the use of Push-IMAP
- Largest userbase – receivers not using Delta Chat can be reached as well
- Compatible – not only to itself
- Elegant and simple user interface
- Distributed system
- No Spam – only messages of known users are shown by default
- Reliable – safe for professional use
- Trustworthy – can even be used for business messages
- fully Open Source and Standards based
What if the receiver does not use Delta Chat?
- The receiver will get a normal email then – if he replies to it, you will see the reply in the Delta Chat app.
Releases: [WayBack] DeltaChat multi-platform releases rolling … – Delta Chat
Repositories via [WayBack] Contribute – Delta Chat:
- [WayBack] Delta Chat · GitHub
- [WayBack] GitHub – deltachat/deltachat-desktop: Desktop Application for https://delta.chat
- [WayBack] GitHub – deltachat/deltachat-android: Email-based instant messaging for Android.
- [WayBack] GitHub – deltachat/deltachat-ios: Email-based instant messaging for iOS.
- [WayBack] GitHub – deltachat/deltachat-core: Delta.Chat C-Library with e2e chat-over-email functionality & Python bindings
- [WayBack] GitHub – deltachat/deltachat-node: node.js bindings for deltachat-core.
Via:
- [WayBack] DeltaChat Messenger – twm’s blog
- [WayBack] DeltaChat is a messenger that uses email as the transport medium, so potentially almost everybody already has an account for it. Today, a they announced… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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