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https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-pages/blob/master/en/help.md

If Delta Chat doesn't have their own servers, does that mean it will drain my phone battery by constantly polling my email provider for updates?

• the netlify key
• checks
• the permission of netlify to this repo if it still exists

I think we should list the contributor names somewhere on the website, however, maybe we should ask before? Not sure.

However, maybe whoever want to be mentioned could just confirm this here? @Ampli-fier @testbird @csb0730 @thorstenb @Hocceruser @staviss @vitalyster @Almtesh @guland2000 @Poussinou @aligitor @toddy15 @zenoganter @netzoom @Claudinux @rizzopablo @luisfsr @haeckser @ujdhesa @IBPX @soapernet @kskarthik @Sebek05 @comradekingu @kdltr @LindaYanez @gitkald @havengoer ... and probably others I forgot or are not here on Github.

Documentation about features, functions and typical use cases should be started / extended.
It would be very welcome to align the various hints across the issue lists, wiki and website.

Maybe a documentation tree could be a good start?

Hello,
the GDPR page is not available in Transifex so it can't be translated.

Are you waiting for the #96 ?

after this example: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/pull/1088/files

• Delete builds when PR gets closed
• Don't comment with the preview link, move it into the checks.

1. Impossible send text message with attached file.
2. If I send picture: in another e-mail program I see picture and BASE-64 code (as text).

Android 4.4.2, ARMv7, MTK6582.

This commit removed the include statements ("to make it translatable") but pasted a version different from the originally included file.

bb65862#diff-0c37c3d787c580808fced0be2a0a478b

ningx redirect from delta.chat/page to delta.chat/[browser requested lang]/page

there also was a blog post recently about this:
https://delta.chat/en/2018-10-03-desktop-update

• Why are we using electron?
• Isn't electron insecure?
• What measures have we gone through to make sure electron is secure to use?
• How is the data stored and accessed through the JavaScript?
• Application size in Electron?
• Isn't JavaScript slow?

Hi Folks,

I was interested in the technical details of Delta Chat, but the link in the FAQ (https://delta.chat/en/help#im-interested-in-the-technical-details-can-you-tell-me-more) is broken.

I would have submitted a PR, but after poking around in a few repos (https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core/tree/master/docs, https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/tree/master/docs) I only seemed to find release-eng stuff.

Cheers.

use on github an on twitter reported that the creation of a new account does not work due to missing activation messages.

the reason for this seems to be the missing DKIM and SPF support of the currently used mail server, v128803.kasserver.com, which is a shared hoster we cannot improve.
see https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-email-on-a-new-discourse-install/16326/2 wrt to discourse, DKIM and SPF.

one solution is to simply get to having the "delta.chat" use MX of codespeak.net.

changing the MX server should be possible on netlify.
@hpk42 you should have the credentials, if not, ping me :)

after that the forum configuration file should be changed, the link above gives some hints about this.
maybe @lefherz has more experience in this.

Currently there's no way to easy view all blog posts. Adding a link to delta.chat/<lang>/blog should solve this.

EDIT: Oh the menu entry is called news. But looked out for blog. Not sure what's more convenient.

As I understand Netlify, there is no need for pages on github to be enabled. So, I think we can disable them sooner or later.

This also avoids duplicate content at https://r10s.github.io/deltachat-pages/ - or isn't that an issue nowadays?

Lets do a list here whats missing/needs to be done:

• IMAP Error codes and explanation what they mean

As we only serve static sites, the language detection should be done by JavaScript (or is there any other option using Jekyll on Netlify?)

This is the procedure:

To go to the first messag you can:

select "search" from the menu
do not enter a search term
click on the up arrow beside the search field

(maybe we shoud document this somewhere in the faq) (@r10s) :-)

sometime eg. when the verified groups are final, i would suggest, someone should add a blog post about typical e-mail concerns as:

• lots of meta data leakage -> modern e-mail implementations encrypt the subject and other headers (memoryhole) -> the receiver may get the ip-address of the sender vs. the typical walled garden server has all ip-addresses and the social graph of all people communicating there

• pgp vs. forward secrecy vs. attaching the identity to a phone number

• e-mail is slow - but maybe fast enough

• e-mail was not created for messaging (so what :)

...

@veit @hpk the idea was to add a page about the DSGVO/EU GDPR wrt Delta Chat.

Meanwhile, we can localize all pages from English to other languages, so maybe English would be fine. However, if the main target group is German, we could also create a page in /de which, however, cannot be translated through Transifex then (but it can be translated manually).

Too much oversimplificationing easily removes important information, relating and background.

https://delta.chat/de/delta-macht-chatten-besser
https://delta.chat/de/david-gegen-goliath

@adbenitez pointed that out via irc.
@r10s it's still beta isn't it? should we wait with adding the link then?

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-pages/blob/master/en/help.md

Curious about what happens to my gmail inbox if I use it with Delta Chat, for example. Will I see a bunch of garbled code emails coming into the webapp gmail inbox?

Hello,

The string in question is the following:

• Data minimization: No alignment or uploading of the address-book content.

If my understanding of the explanation offered to me is correct, the alignment here means the ability of a service to peak at your address book (without your knowledge?) and copy from your data.

The word chosen doesn't convey this meaning, at least not at the first contact. If changing it is not an option, at least a translator's comment in the string might help.

Regards,
Besnik

We should wait 48 hours until we do this, as delta.chat may not yet be available in all DNS

quote of the requests from the user:

• discuss what is less secure than in PGP and in WhatsApp
  when keys are validated via QR setup message? [pfs, ...]
• discuss metadata, you write
  "Delta Chat even protects your metadata (who writes to whom?)"
  How? This data is still available for the mail providers
  (which spreads this data more than on a centralized solution),
  as far I can see it does not encrypt headers or remove referrers,
  etc.
• Differences between validated groups of 2 members vs.
  1-1 chat with mutual validation.
• compare also to pep (pretty easy privacy) and show it is the
  better solution. I only did not install and test this app
  cause of its permissions required on Android.

there could be a "references" page that links to blog post and articles about Delta Chat.

https://delta.chat/en/download vs. https://delta.chat/de/download

The content is different

I noticed that the (possibly encrypted ) messages appear also in my normal email client.
It would be a good default if the messages are deleted of the server after receiving.
And if someone wants to have the messages also on other email devices he could disable the auto-delete.

I had made a mistake with a link, I had fixed it as soon as I noticed it, but that was some days ago and the translations seems not to be updated yet, see the broken GDPR link: https://delta.chat/es/

r10s
Found a badge for the GDPR , can be placed on the site delta.chat (in the application, I do not know whether it is necessary or not)
Looks cool, and right.

Experience with new users first installation of DC with various providers shows most of time problems with provider settings.

1. currently it's hard to find a detailed description how to set up known problematic provider's settings.
2. current descriptons at support forum partly seems to be wrong or outdated.

For new users it's hard to find provider settings at current web site. So without assistance of experienced used of DC it's impossible for a standard user to commission DC to a working state. Most of new users will throw away DC if they will run into this issue.

A prominent provider wiki or help is needed.

with nginx filesystem-index views
Will be accessed from a button on the download page, mainly to browse preview builds.

http://delta.chat/ does not implement HSTS and doesn't redirect from HTTP to HTTPS either. If that's possible with Netlify, maybe it should?

as @Sebek05 figured out, there is a single string in help.md that cannot be translated.

it's the first paragraph after https://delta.chat/en/help#can-i-re-use-by-existing-private-key :

although translated in the .po file, the resulting .md file does not contain the correct string, eg. in german:
https://delta.chat/de/help#kann-ich-meinen-bestehenden-privaten-schl%C3%BCssel-weiterverwenden

i have no idea for the reason, we use po2txt, maybe here are people around with more background on this tool.

maybe this bug is related to translate/translate#1601 ?

Hi,
on your web page the link or the settings to the donations via paypal is not set correctly https://paypal.me/deltachat/10

I tried to donate some money but it says

"Dieser Empfänger akzeptiert PayPal-Zahlungen nur über seine Webseite. Um diese Zahlung durchzuführen, besuchen Sie seine Webseite oder schreiben Sie den Empfänger direkt an."

Equals:
The recipient accepts paypal-payments only on his webppage. To make payments, visit his webppage or write the recipient a message

I want to you receive all donations that someone wants to send you without any obstacles. So please check an maybe correct the Paypal-Settings.

Maybe there are a few more people online that would donate or would have donated if they do not get this error message.

Best regards
Fox

add a link to https://support.delta.chat/t/provider-overview, maybe to help.md

I can't upload the files via git. So I try this method and hopes it's ok.

This ist my first try to write a posting for the blog.

2017-08-29-follow-on-friendica.zip

The GDPR session of the site does not make sense if you live outside Europe and make the app feel something eurocentrist. Also, there are other laws out there that touches in the same object, which is personal data protection as, for instance, Brazilian Law of personal data protection, approved in the current year (2018).

@rizzopablo: What was the commit 11d7199 for? using theme: jekyll-theme-minimal makes the build on Netlify fail (same for my local jekyll installation).

I've removed the setting using 9e9e0a4 (I know, it would have been better to revert the original one)

a link to https://support.delta.chat should be added somewhere to the menu or so ...

This solution seems to work: deltachat/deltachat-android#98 (comment)

The website reads "Anonymous: Metadata like Who communicates with Whom, When and Where is not collected".
Yet, email providers and 3rd party that can monitor network traffic between them can easily tell who's writing to whom and when.

From what I can tell
They're is no simple visual way to tell if the conversation is encrypted, if the message you are sending is encrypted (or expected to be encrypted)or if the message you received was encrypted or not.
Something like a little red openlock or red eye to say no encryption was used would be nice.
Or a green indicator to say encryption is in use and all is encrypted.

en/help.md has a section about using deltachat on the linux desktop, that involves using anbox-installer. when i try to follow those instructions, i am told that anbox-installer is deprecated.

I haven't yet been able to figure out how to install anbox and get it working in any sensible way, so i don't have a patch to send you for the instructions, but you probably want to know that the instructions are currently not working. :(

Originally, this repository was filed as r10s/deltachat-pages. This is also the repository Netlify used for delived the website from https://delta.chat.

One day, I created the deltachat organisation and moved the repository to deltachat/deltachat-pages.
Github created a redirect then, that was used by Netlify.

Everything was working well.

Then, I personally wanted to test sth. and created a fork of deltachat/deltachat-pages in my own account - which then results in r10s/deltachat-pages - and make the redirect no longer working. Took me a moment to find out the problem ...

As a first workaround, I then just removed r10s/deltachat-pages and everything works again.

However, to avoid this problem in the future, we should link Netlify to deltachat/deltachat-pages directly.

There is a file called LICENSE in the repository which contains the GPLv3 but in the individual files and the readme nothing refers to it. Therefore, it is not clear if the GPL is applicable.

Also, if I use the CSS and just change the colors, will it be enough to simply add the LICENSE file and a GPL header? I mean, everyone can download it with some developer tools.

Reference: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html

For the upcoming Burner Account feature we need a nice entry page with graphics that explains what DC Burner Account is about.