> It turns out that SMTP/IMAP was not that good of a protocol for IM after all.
it seems you have never looked at Delta Chat and chatmail at all, chatmail is just SMPT/IMAP, it is a deployment of postfix + dovecot, so if we translate your message to the reality this is what you actually believed:
"wow so it turned out SMTP/IMAP is a good protocol for IM after all, I got confusing thinking that chatmail was a chat protocol"
Strypey (npub1d93…cnl2)
ArcaneChat
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2026-09-02 18:15:28 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…5rg5
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