Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat

Re:Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat by foul on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:10AM (#43265970)

Email is a communication system with a lot of moving parts. You can't have reliable IM through existing MX servers but you may have it if for example SMTPs are running on your machine and you poll them more (it's just an example, I know that with an SMTP running on your phone you'd have more problems).

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Re:Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat by hkt on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:58AM (#43266439)

See earlier on today's front page, another all in one mail server. It is much, much simpler than it was to do this. I've been self hosting email for nearly 20 years and the state of the art is considerably better now. Latency is virtually nonexistent and federation works.

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Re:Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat by wink on Thursday March 06, 2025 @10:37AM (#43281425)

I'd say it's good enough - but I refuse to call a conversation over email "reliable" as in the properties I expect from a realtime messenger.

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Re:Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat by foul on Saturday March 08, 2025 @08:16PM (#43305237)

It's reliable, it conveys messages, but not instant at all.

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