9 Oct
2018
9 Oct
'18
12:16 a.m.
Hi All,
first of all I strongly support the idea of Enrico:
The beautiful idea of Deltachat is that You can use it with your
*existing* mail account and present and use email simply in a new and
easier presentation form for most simple use cases.
There should not be any additional workload (wall!) for users around
to use it, even in collaboration with a standard mail client.
Especially that shared usage is in my eyes the fundamental new approach
and advantage of Deltachat!
From my own user experience I can confirm Enrico very well that most
users I could convince by now to try Deltachat, never would have tried
it if there had been the additional wall around usage with a dedicated
email account!
Second, all efforts in development should go in a direction to make
different use cases possible, but simplify (shared) mail account
handling as much as possible.
Maybe one of the most important thoughts not yet verbalized clearly, I
see from all the discussions at github and here:
Deltachat should *not* try to be an email client which tries to handle
and manage any complex folder structure at IMAP server!
This makes development, IMAP communication and sync for multi client
usage more complex than needed!
Current approach tries to support this more or less (polling of many
folders). But is this the right approach? Would it make sense to
simplify this? This would help to use a shared account :-)
Have a good night :)
Christian
Am 06.10.2018 um 08:32 schrieb Enrico Bella:
> Hello Holger,
>
> Il giorno ven, 05/10/2018 alle 12.37 +0200, holger krekel ha scritto:
>> Therefore we think it's better to move towards recommending
>> **dedicated e-mail accounts for DeltaChat**. You may still
>> use it "shared" but there will be no features or much development
>> effort sunk into it.
>
> I talk as an user, not a developer. It's a bad idea IMHO. An email
> accout is still felt as something personal and "complex" to create. I
> think that a lot of people whom I suggested Delta Chat would never
> tried this app if they needed a new email account. I'm pretty sure
> about that.
> The beautiful of Delta Chat is that you can use it with your *existing*
> email account and start/stop to use the app whenever you want. I'd be
> the first one to have never tried Delta Chat if I needed to register a
> new email account or have to suffer "bugs" if used with my current
> email account. What's the difference between register a new email
> account just for DC and register to Proton Mail that already has
> encryption? Delta Chat IMPROVES something you ALREADY have. Transforms
> something "old" to something "modern". This is the strenghtness
of this
> app and why I love it.
>
> In this way you will force the user to choose between:
> 1 - Register yet another email account (They probably won't do that)
> 2 - Use the current email account knowing that the app has bugs and
> doesn't work as expected (They probably won't do that)
>
> I'm talking about new low/mid-skilled users as I am. If you want to
> target mid/high-skilled users this choice could be fine.
> I'm sure that you have valid issues that bring you to this decision,
> but I just wanted to show you my doubts about this choice. There is
> really no way to make it work better with an existing account?
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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