Can I use a chatmail account as an alternate email address ?
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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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.
Are you a part of the delta chat team ?
So, delta chat is changing ?
The changes I mentioned have already landed. Eg chatmail relays rejecting clear text emails is the default now.
I am an iOS maintainer yes.