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We engage with decentralization protocols a lot (many nerds love to) but make no mistake: in the end, the app needs to work and be easy to use. #deltachat is a cross-platform FOSS offering, with guaranteed security levels, close to user expectations ... major factors in driving adoption!

True, the email system is not necessarily better than #xmpp ... but please compare with http://chatmail.at which is fast, ephemeral and secure, with delta inherently being a peer-to-peer E2EE messenger :)

@delta One thing I don't understand: how can you send email when you don't store it for long. This means messages are only stored in the client yes, but it shortly stored by the server until it's collected by the client?
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@hanscees yes, email servers are used as relays (chatmail) only. They are store-and-forward servers just like signals hyperscale servers (Amazon, google, ...)

Delta single device users will delete the server side copy after receiving the message. For multi device setups messages are queued for 20-40 days, and then unconditionally deleted on relays.