@delta@chaos.social For context, I'm in the middle of writing a big deep dive on email and the various practices to reduce lock-in. (If you or anyone reading have any opinions I'd love to hear them). I've been a fan of Delta Chat for a while so I thought it would be fun to include an "Instant Messaging with Email" section.

I took your post as an opportunity to try Delta Chat <-> Encrypted Email communication. While I only got it half working in the end, I still saw the potential as a bridge while contacts haven't moved over. That said, it would've just been quicker to set up a DC account instead of messing with keys (the email clients I tried couldn't get the keys from the vcard) :p.

From what I can gather the email ecosystem's asymmetry in Autocrypt implementation is causing increased load on folk in this case.

Some questions:
- What's the ideal DC<->Encrypted Email communication look like to you?
- Do you have any plans to improve that experience?
- Is it even a focus?
- Is there anything you'd like to see the wider email ecosystem working towards to reduce friction with delta chat?
- And do you have recommendations for providers/services that work out of the box so to speak with Delta Chat?

Feel free to throw whatever you have at me, the more info the better :). Thanks in advance.