2026-04-02 13:15 UTC
@ben @delta oh, I think I did a bad job explaining what I mean:
The idea is that you have 2 mailboxes: one foo@bar.tld in allow-listed provider and second one outside the country, i.e baz@gmail.com or other major email provider. Usually there is no restrictions for email traffic outside the country to this destinations. While you can’t access gmail directly, you emails still cab.
So your traffic flows foo@bar.tld → baz@gmail.com → chatmail sever and routed back chatmail → baz@gmail.com → foo@bar.tld
So there is no direct exchange between chatmail servers and allowlisted servers inside the country. Mass email scanning is not here yet, but transit level traffic filtering is slowly being rolled out
Also it does not expose your bare email address as contact address for DC
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@alex@feed.yopp.me 2026-04-02 13:39
@ben @delta but to be fair, deltachat is not a long term solution and was built for quite diffirent circumstances. Even in mentioned flow DC traffic itself is very obvious and can be cheaply filtered with just a few rules on the email server side Steganography could help, but even then, hiding messages in memes can be filtered by trivial throttling. Sadly, there is very little technology built for being able to tunnel seemingly legitimate traffic over very weird lossy transports. I wasn’t expecting that tunneling traffic by encoding it in videostream would be a viable option in real life and not just hypothetical scenario from cryptopunk sci-fi