Community developments

Active development takes place in the chatmail/relay github repository.

You can check out the ‘chatmail’ tag in the support.delta.chat forum and ask to get added to a non-public support chat for debugging issues.

We know of three work-in-progress alternative implementation efforts:

  • Mox: A Golang email server. Work is in progress to modify it to support all of the features and configuration settings required to operate as a chatmail relay.

  • Maddy-Chatmail: a plugin for the Maddy email server which aims to implement the chatmail relay features and configuration options.

  • Chatmail Cookbook: A Chef Cookbook implementing a relay server. The project follows the official relay server software and configurations converted to a Chef Cookbook with only minor differences. The cookbook uses DNS-01 for certificate validation and additionally supports FreeBSD. It does not require a Chef server to use.