The concluding paragraph is what I needed to know. I had been using my chatmail relay account just as an alternate email address where l didn't want to submit my actual email address.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By default newer versions of the chatmail relay will drop unencrypted incoming mail so this usecase will be phased out. Relay operators should not have to deal with all the rules around storing private information (which could be in those unencrypted emails).

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A friend of mine shared this with me :

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In general we focus on the encrypted chat part and not on the clear text email. You can just use any mail client for clear text email, there is no benefit in using delta chat client for that. It’s actually worse since you won’t get notifications for non-chatmail which is not possible to fix on platforms like iOS which don’t have permanent background modes.

This doesn’t mean we are actively trying to remove clear text email support but some recent innovations required refactoring that we decided not to fully back port to clear text email, because it’s not our priority.

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you a part of the delta chat team ?

So, delta chat is changing ?

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The changes I mentioned have already landed. Eg chatmail relays rejecting clear text emails is the default now.

I am an iOS maintainer yes.