The issue is, if an email is sent to one of my aliases, instead of seeing one conversation between the sender and a recipient (my alias) every message creates a new group chat with the sender, my main account and my alias as members. For every single mail, even when all members are the same, a new group is created. When I reply in that group, then the email will be sent to all group members, including the original sender, and my alias. And sender would always be the main account.
This is a known Delta chat issue, but they deem it too niche to consider properly supporting aliases.
In an ideal world, when an email arrives, it should create a conversation between a sender and a recipient (alias) without adding a main account as a member. Sending a new message in that conversation will automatically use an alias as a sender. For new chats/conversations, I should be able to choose which alias to use.
Then I would be able to use it as a chat UI for my mail messages.
a long time ago i envisioned that mail clients should really display mails as a conversation just like you describe. a list with all my contacts. and opening the contact gives me all emails received and sent with that contact.
if you want to use different aliases in deltachat, i think the best option for now is to create different deltachat profiles for each. you can have multiple profiles active at once and you get notifications for all of them, you only have to switch profiles to see all the messages. switching profiles is a single click and feels like switching folders in traditional mail clients.
Yes, but the issue is they all share the same inbox, and my email server doesn't support server-side incoming filters so I can distribute mails to separate inbox folders that would be monitored by DeltaChat.
Alias is a standard email feature. If Delta Chat want's to be usable as a general mail client, aliases should just work.
This is a known Delta chat issue, but they deem it too niche to consider properly supporting aliases.
In an ideal world, when an email arrives, it should create a conversation between a sender and a recipient (alias) without adding a main account as a member. Sending a new message in that conversation will automatically use an alias as a sender. For new chats/conversations, I should be able to choose which alias to use.
Then I would be able to use it as a chat UI for my mail messages.