How to easily use and try Delta Chat

This is a text automatically translated from Italian. If you appreciate our work and if you like reading it in your language, consider a donation to allow us to continue doing it and improving it.

Our group has reported a very interesting, quick and painless method for trying to use Delta Chat! This is a mail server created specifically for this purpose on which it is possible to create an anonymous address extremely quickly optimized for Delta, with which you can only write to other encrypted recipients (so you will never receive spam).

This type of service available for Delta Chat is called Chatmail and it's really very useful to finally start trying Delta Chat. The service we offer is Italian and run by a small volunteer group of Delta Chat users.

How to easily use and try Delta Chat

By signing up for this service you will be given a totally anonymous and random email address with domain @chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space and 100MB of free space. There is little space, not very little if you don't send photos/videos but only text, and it is therefore recommended to set the deletion of messages from the server with a fairly low time.

Instructions

The easiest way to get this address to use on Delta Chat is this:

If you do this operation from desktop you will also be able to recover the automatically generated password otherwise you will still be able to create an account to use but you will not be able, for now, to discover the generated password.

• install Delta Chat on your smartphone (Play Store, F-Droid, iOS) or desktop
• if you are on a smartphone, open a any program to read QR codes otherwise read the next point
• go to This Page and click on the QR code or scan the QR code you find
• choose your avatar and name to display
• optional: sign up to this group to prove that everything works!
• stop

Now, as you will have seen if you have followed the instructions, you have created an anonymous Delta Chat account without any technical knowledge. It is a full-fledged email account, although as mentioned it was specifically designed for Delta Chat and only accepts encrypted messages.

The account can be recovered later, just go to the settings and see the password that was entered.

What is Delta Chat?

Here's to happy Delta Chat we have dedicated an article some time ago. It is a full-fledged messaging application which however is based on e-mail! To sign up and start using it, all you need to do is know the IMAP server of your email provider and the experience is truly incredible.

It's amazing because if you didn't know you were using email it would seem like you were using any other messaging application. The strength is precisely that of using a system that already exists, distributed, federated and exploiting PGP for encryption.

If we have intrigued you, this is definitely a good opportunity to try Delta Chat!

This tag @loyal alternatives is used to automatically send this post to Feddit and allow anyone on the fediverse to comment on it.

Join communities