Discussion
Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with #chatmail or #deltachat.
It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a #p2p fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a federated e2ee-restricted SMTP network.
A chat profile or chat group has zero data on the server. It's radically different from classic email servers, Whatsapp, Signal, XMPP and Matrix servers which host and control chat identity.
@delta Is there a technical architectural document about the system somewhere? I've tried finding one already couple of times but search engines are not liking my queries for this.
A self-contained blog article would be also fine 🙂
@nihkeys There is documentation about various areas of the project, what exactly are you looking for? https://cosmos.delta.chat/ gives an overview about the components of the ecosystem. We also plan to publish a security whitepaper later this year, if that's your angle.
@delta I think what would be helpful is a document that describes a "lifetime" of a single message and the systems and components that are involved in processing and forwarding it. Also for group communication.
There seems to exist separate documentation bits for individual things (like on cosmos) but I'm having trouble finding system level documents.
@delta well, is it #deltachat or #matrix? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@roughnecks ah the matrix project came a decade or so later than the movie but ok. It might be clearer if some delta would be painted into the picture, likely :)
@delta one feature that could be nice it's a sort of feedback on with user know witch relay.
When we change relay we don't really have a proper feedback on with other user know us where (so it's more difficult to decide when we can remove a relay).
@delta I really like the context but have zero energy to convince my peers to switch to a new platform/technology
Maybe some day
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