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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 07:32:38 JST feld
   Curious what it would be like to write bots for #DeltaChat? There's a blog post for that
   
   https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/03/deltachat-bots-made-easy/
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 07:33:32 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld is it possible to make a mail server work for regular mail and for deltachat
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     safonas {~*~} (safonas@vkl.world)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 00:07:17 JST safonas {~*~}

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     @feld love it, thanks! Just yesterday I was wondering whether I can rely on delta chat to receive alerts and send simple commands to my server.. #DeltaChatOps! :bash:

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 01:43:29 JST feld

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     @safonas Honestly it was just as easy as Telegram, it just needs some docs improvements.
     
     Also if you've never written bots for Telegram you may have needed to compile and run their telegram-bot-api for certain functionality (larger files, etc)
     
     https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api
     
     Amazingly that C++ project takes considerably more time to compile than the DeltaChat Rust core 🤣🤣🤣
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     Alan (alandes@ieji.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 08:35:18 JST Alan

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     @sun @feld

     Yes, this is how Delta Chat was designed from the start! In fact you can even use Delta Chat as a hybrid mail/instant messaging client, and you can even use the same account for mail and chatting if you want, but people often find it works more smoothly if you create a separate account for chatting.

     However there are some differences between a regular mail server and a chatmail server which you might want to learn about, such as push notifications and automatic mail deletion.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:35:10 JST feld

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     • Peter Hormanns
     @peter oh, great to hear! I need to make a few updates to the blog post with information I've learned recently:
     
     - if the account has bot: 1 set, you do not need to accept a chat to be able to write messages back to it.
     
     - the wait_next_msgs is actually an experimental feature and the current best practice is to use poll get_next_event in a loop so you can get all types of messages/events and process them (emoji reacts, etc)
     
     I think there are a couple other things I'd like to mention but I'll have to dig up my notes :)
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     Peter Hormanns (peter@hostsharing.coop)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 06:35:12 JST Peter Hormanns

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     @feld
     Thank you for your text about #DeltaChat bots. The article helped me a lot to quickly program the basis for a bot.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 08:38:47 JST feld

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     @peter my first refactor of the blog post has been published, but I didn't replace wait_next_msgs with get_next_event yet