• Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    As I’ve understood, Delta chat is based on the IMAP protocol and uses the infrastructure of your email provider. Thus, it uses no own server infrastructure, but has the also the downsides of the protocol and some issues with many email providers.

    Wikipedia.de - Delta Chat (no English version available yet)

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      some issues with many email providers

      This turned out to be the deal-breaker for me. GMX kept locking me out of my account because of the DeltaChat messages. They’re (of course) full of cyphertext and to email providers this must look a look like spam.

      The open-to-abuse nature of email claims yet another victim.

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        5 hours ago

        On the other hand, GMX (and web.de) is a notoriously bad influence on email communication and will randomly block mailservers if they feel like it while flooding all of their own users with spam. The world would be a better place without 1&1 / united internet.

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          4 hours ago

          But it’s a free Europe-based provider that’s not US big tech. A better suggestion?

          To be clear, I use a paid service (Mailbox.org) for my main email, as everyone should do.

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      7 hours ago

      Right, they don’t support the advanced login protocols some providers like outlook require. That was a deal breaker, because deltachat was pretty much the last encrypted messaging service which worked in China.