Our strong focus on end to end encryption and zero metadata does mean that one of the original project notions of "you can use delta chat as a lightweight cleartext email client and your contacts don't need to care" was deprioritized since some time now and remains available rather for specialists only. It used to be encrypted mail that was hard to do and only for experts. Delta kind of reversed this. Now it's hard to do cleartext. But you can self host your mailbox addresses. No changes there!

@delta so you're abandoning the largest decentralized network (email) to try and become some "messenger" alternative? Why?
for ~2 decades people tried to explain pgp to the masses (without luck), then delta.chat gave the solution to that problem, but now "fuck it, lets just compete signal or whatsapp or some other shitty app."...

Disappointed tbh. But anyway, good luck with it.

@uhuru we are not abandoning email but de-prioritizing cleartext email. IETF-standardized protocols remain in use across the board, including modern OpenPGP based standards. We are "encryption first" and use the email system for encrypted decentralized communications. Many different server implementations and operations work just fine.