fix: cap percentage in connectivity layout to 100%

it may happen that percentages larger than 100% are reported by the provider, eg. for some time a storage usage of 120% may be accepted. while we should report the values "as is" to the user, for the bar, percentages larger 100% will destroy the layout.
2026-04-03 05:52:10 +03:00 · 2023-10-01 12:24:41 +02:00
226 changed files with 9932 additions and 21429 deletions
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
-      - main
+      - master
+      - stable

 env:
  RUSTFLAGS: -Dwarnings
@@ -24,11 +25,9 @@ jobs:
    name: Lint Rust
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
-      RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN: 1.77.1
+      RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN: 1.72.0
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Install rustfmt and clippy
        run: rustup toolchain install $RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN --profile minimal --component rustfmt --component clippy
      - name: Cache rust cargo artifacts
@@ -40,13 +39,15 @@ jobs:
      - name: Check
        run: cargo check --workspace --all-targets --all-features

+      # Check with musl libc target which is used for `deltachat-rpc-server` releases.
+      - name: Check musl
+        run: scripts/zig-musl-check.sh
+
  cargo_deny:
    name: cargo deny
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny-action@v1
        with:
          arguments: --all-features --workspace
@@ -57,9 +58,7 @@ jobs:
    name: Check provider database
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Check provider database
        run: scripts/update-provider-database.sh

@@ -69,9 +68,8 @@ jobs:
    env:
      RUSTDOCFLAGS: -Dwarnings
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - name: Checkout sources
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Cache rust cargo artifacts
        uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
      - name: Rustdoc
@@ -83,20 +81,18 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        include:
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            rust: 1.77.1
+            rust: 1.71.0
          - os: windows-latest
-            rust: 1.77.1
+            rust: 1.71.0
          - os: macos-latest
-            rust: 1.77.1
+            rust: 1.71.0

-          # Minimum Supported Rust Version = 1.77.0
+          # Minimum Supported Rust Version = 1.67.0
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            rust: 1.77.0
+            rust: 1.67.0
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install Rust ${{ matrix.rust }}
        run: rustup toolchain install --profile minimal ${{ matrix.rust }}
@@ -120,9 +116,7 @@ jobs:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Cache rust cargo artifacts
        uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
@@ -131,7 +125,7 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build -p deltachat_ffi --features jsonrpc

      - name: Upload C library
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-libdeltachat.a
          path: target/debug/libdeltachat.a
@@ -141,12 +135,10 @@ jobs:
    name: Build deltachat-rpc-server
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Cache rust cargo artifacts
        uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
@@ -155,19 +147,18 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server

      - name: Upload deltachat-rpc-server
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-deltachat-rpc-server
-          path: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' && 'target/debug/deltachat-rpc-server.exe' || 'target/debug/deltachat-rpc-server' }}
+          path: target/debug/deltachat-rpc-server
          retention-days: 1

  python_lint:
    name: Python lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - name: Checkout sources
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install tox
        run: pip install tox
@@ -180,8 +171,8 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: deltachat-rpc-client
        run: tox -e lint

-  cffi_python_tests:
-    name: CFFI Python tests
+  python_tests:
+    name: Python tests
    needs: ["c_library", "python_lint"]
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
@@ -189,15 +180,15 @@ jobs:
        include:
          # Currently used Rust version.
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.12
+            python: 3.11
          - os: macos-latest
-            python: 3.12
+            python: 3.11

          # PyPy tests
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: pypy3.10
+            python: pypy3.9
          - os: macos-latest
-            python: pypy3.10
+            python: pypy3.9

          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.7
          # This is the minimum version for which manylinux Python wheels are
@@ -207,18 +198,16 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Download libdeltachat.a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-libdeltachat.a
          path: target/debug

      - name: Install python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}

@@ -227,44 +216,43 @@ jobs:

      - name: Run python tests
        env:
-          CHATMAIL_DOMAIN: ${{ secrets.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN }}
+          DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL }}
          DCC_RS_TARGET: debug
          DCC_RS_DEV: ${{ github.workspace }}
        working-directory: python
        run: tox -e mypy,doc,py

-  rpc_python_tests:
-    name: JSON-RPC Python tests
+  aysnc_python_tests:
+    name: Async Python tests
    needs: ["python_lint", "rpc_server"]
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.12
+            python: 3.11
          - os: macos-latest
-            python: 3.12
-          - os: windows-latest
-            python: 3.12
+            python: 3.11

          # PyPy tests
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: pypy3.10
+            python: pypy3.9
          - os: macos-latest
-            python: pypy3.10
+            python: pypy3.9

-          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.7
+          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.8
+          #
+          # Python 3.7 has at least one known bug related to starting subprocesses
+          # in asyncio programs: <https://bugs.python.org/issue35621>
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.7
+            python: 3.8

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}

@@ -272,26 +260,19 @@ jobs:
        run: pip install tox

      - name: Download deltachat-rpc-server
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-deltachat-rpc-server
          path: target/debug

      - name: Make deltachat-rpc-server executable
-        if: ${{ matrix.os != 'windows-latest' }}
        run: chmod +x target/debug/deltachat-rpc-server

      - name: Add deltachat-rpc-server to path
-        if: ${{ matrix.os != 'windows-latest' }}
        run: echo ${{ github.workspace }}/target/debug >> $GITHUB_PATH

-      - name: Add deltachat-rpc-server to path
-        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
-        run: |
-          "${{ github.workspace }}/target/debug" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
-
      - name: Run deltachat-rpc-client tests
        env:
-          CHATMAIL_DOMAIN: ${{ secrets.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN }}
+          DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL }}
        working-directory: deltachat-rpc-client
        run: tox -e py
--- a/.github/workflows/deltachat-rpc-server.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deltachat-rpc-server.yml
@@ -21,248 +21,118 @@ jobs:
  # Build a version statically linked against musl libc
  # to avoid problems with glibc version incompatibility.
  build_linux:
-    name: Linux
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        arch: [aarch64, armv7l, armv6l, i686, x86_64]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Cross-compile deltachat-rpc-server for x86_64, i686, aarch64 and armv7 Linux
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

-      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server binaries
-        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-linux
+      - name: Build
+        run: sh scripts/zig-rpc-server.sh

-      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      - name: Upload x86_64 binary
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-linux
-          path: result/bin/deltachat-rpc-server
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64
+          path: target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/deltachat-rpc-server
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+      - name: Upload i686 binary
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-i686
+          path: target/i686-unknown-linux-musl/release/deltachat-rpc-server
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+      - name: Upload aarch64 binary
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64
+          path: target/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/release/deltachat-rpc-server
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+      - name: Upload armv7 binary
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7
+          path: target/armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf/release/deltachat-rpc-server
          if-no-files-found: error

  build_windows:
-    name: Windows
+    name: Build deltachat-rpc-server for Windows
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        arch: [win32, win64]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
+        include:
+          - os: windows-latest
+            artifact: win32.exe
+            path: deltachat-rpc-server.exe
+            target: i686-pc-windows-msvc

-      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server binaries
-        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          - os: windows-latest
+            artifact: win64.exe
+            path: deltachat-rpc-server.exe
+            target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup rust target
+        run: rustup target add ${{ matrix.target }}
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: cargo build --release --package deltachat-rpc-server --target ${{ matrix.target }} --features vendored

      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          path: result/bin/deltachat-rpc-server.exe
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.artifact }}
+          path: target/${{ matrix.target}}/release/${{ matrix.path }}
          if-no-files-found: error

  build_macos:
-    name: macOS
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        arch: [x86_64, aarch64]
-
+    name: Build deltachat-rpc-server for macOS
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Setup rust target
-        run: rustup target add ${{ matrix.arch }}-apple-darwin
+        run: rustup target add x86_64-apple-darwin

      - name: Build
-        run: cargo build --release --package deltachat-rpc-server --target ${{ matrix.arch }}-apple-darwin --features vendored
+        run: cargo build --release --package deltachat-rpc-server --target x86_64-apple-darwin --features vendored

      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-macos
-          path: target/${{ matrix.arch }}-apple-darwin/release/deltachat-rpc-server
-          if-no-files-found: error
-
-  build_android:
-    name: Android
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        arch: [arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
-
-      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server binaries
-        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-android
-
-      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-android
-          path: result/bin/deltachat-rpc-server
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
+          path: target/x86_64-apple-darwin/release/deltachat-rpc-server
          if-no-files-found: error

  publish:
-    name: Build wheels and upload binaries to the release
+    name: Upload binaries to the release
    needs: ["build_linux", "build_windows", "build_macos"]
-    environment:
-      name: pypi
-      url: https://pypi.org/p/deltachat-rpc-server
    permissions:
-      id-token: write
      contents: write
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
+      - name: Download built binaries
+        uses: "actions/download-artifact@v3"

-      - name: Download Linux aarch64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux.d
-
-      - name: Download Linux armv7l binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux.d
-
-      - name: Download Linux armv6l binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux.d
-
-      - name: Download Linux i686 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux.d
-
-      - name: Download Linux x86_64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux.d
-
-      - name: Download Win32 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win32
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win32.d
-
-      - name: Download Win64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win64
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win64.d
-
-      - name: Download macOS binary for x86_64
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos.d
-
-      - name: Download macOS binary for aarch64
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos.d
-
-      - name: Download Android binary for arm64-v8a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android.d
-
-      - name: Download Android binary for armeabi-v7a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android
-          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android.d
-
-      - name: Create bin/ directory
+      - name: Compose dist/ directory
        run: |
-          mkdir -p bin
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-win32.d/deltachat-rpc-server.exe bin/deltachat-rpc-server-win32.exe
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-win64.d/deltachat-rpc-server.exe bin/deltachat-rpc-server-win64.exe
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android
-          mv deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android.d/deltachat-rpc-server bin/deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android
+          mkdir dist
+          for x in x86_64 i686 aarch64 armv7 win32.exe win64.exe x86_64-macos; do
+            mv "deltachat-rpc-server-$x"/* "dist/deltachat-rpc-server-$x"
+          done

-      - name: List binaries
-        run: ls -l bin/
-
-      # Python 3.11 is needed for tomllib used in scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py
-      - name: Install python 3.12
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.12
-
-      - name: Install wheel
-        run: pip install wheel
-
-      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server Python wheels and source package
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p dist
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-source
-          cp result/*.tar.gz dist/
-          python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py x86_64-darwin bin/deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
-          python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py aarch64-darwin bin/deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos
-          mv *.whl dist/
-
-      - name: List artifacts
+      - name: List downloaded artifacts
        run: ls -l dist/

      - name: Upload binaries to the GitHub release
-        if: github.event_name == 'release'
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
        run: |
          gh release upload ${{ github.ref_name }} \
            --repo ${{ github.repository }} \
-            bin/* dist/*
-
-      - name: Publish deltachat-rpc-client to PyPI
-        if: github.event_name == 'release'
-        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+            dist/*
--- a/.github/workflows/jsonrpc-client-npm-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/jsonrpc-client-npm-package.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,11 @@ jobs:
    steps:
      - name: Install tree
        run: sudo apt install tree
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: "18"
+          node-version: "16"
      - name: Get tag
        id: tag
        uses: dawidd6/action-get-tag@v1
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
          ls -lah
          mv $(find deltachat-jsonrpc-client-*) $DELTACHAT_JSONRPC_TAR_GZ
      - name: Upload Prebuild
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: deltachat-jsonrpc-client.tgz
          path: deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/${{ env.DELTACHAT_JSONRPC_TAR_GZ }}
--- a/.github/workflows/jsonrpc.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/jsonrpc.yml
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ name: JSON-RPC API Test

 on:
  push:
-    branches: [main]
+    branches: [master]
  pull_request:
-    branches: [main]
+    branches: [master]

 env:
  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
@@ -14,13 +14,11 @@ jobs:
  build_and_test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Use Node.js 16.x
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - name: Use Node.js 18.x
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: 18.x
+          node-version: 16.x
      - name: Add Rust cache
        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
      - name: npm install
@@ -33,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript
        run: npm run test
        env:
-          CHATMAIL_DOMAIN: ${{ secrets.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN }}
+          DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL }}
      - name: make sure websocket server version still builds
        working-directory: deltachat-jsonrpc
        run: cargo build --bin deltachat-jsonrpc-server --features webserver
--- a/.github/workflows/node-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/node-docs.yml
@@ -8,20 +8,18 @@ name: Generate & upload node.js documentation
 on:
  push:
    branches:
-      - main
+      - master

 jobs:
  generate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

-      - name: Use Node.js 18.x
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - name: Use Node.js 16.x
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          node-version: 18.x
+          node-version: 16.x

      - name: npm install and generate documentation
        working-directory: node
--- a/.github/workflows/node-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/node-package.yml
@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        os: [macos-latest, windows-latest]
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: "18"
+          node-version: "16"
      - name: System info
        run: |
          rustc -vV
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
          node --version

      - name: Cache node modules
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            ${{ env.APPDATA }}/npm-cache
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
          key: ${{ matrix.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package.json') }}

      - name: Cache cargo index
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry/
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
          tar -zcvf "${{ matrix.os }}.tar.gz" -C prebuilds .

      - name: Upload Prebuild
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}
          path: node/${{ matrix.os }}.tar.gz
@@ -67,20 +66,21 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Build Linux prebuilds inside a container with old glibc for backwards compatibility.
-    # Debian 10 contained glibc 2.28: https://packages.debian.org/buster/libc6
-    container: debian:10
+    # Debian 10 contained glibc 2.28 at the time of the writing (2023-06-04): https://packages.debian.org/buster/libc6
+    # Ubuntu 18.04 is at the End of Standard Support since June 2023, but it contains glibc 2.27,
+    # so we are using it to support Ubuntu 18.04 setups that are still not upgraded.
+    container: ubuntu:18.04
    steps:
      # Working directory is owned by 1001:1001 by default.
      # Change it to our user.
      - name: Change working directory owner
        run: chown root:root .

-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: "18"
+          node-version: "16"
      - run: apt-get update

      # Python is needed for node-gyp
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
          node --version

      - name: Cache node modules
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            ${{ env.APPDATA }}/npm-cache
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ jobs:
          key: ${{ matrix.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package.json') }}

      - name: Cache cargo index
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry/
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ jobs:
          tar -zcvf "linux.tar.gz" -C prebuilds .

      - name: Upload Prebuild
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: linux
          path: node/linux.tar.gz
@@ -139,12 +139,11 @@ jobs:
    steps:
      - name: Install tree
        run: sudo apt install tree
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: "18"
+          node-version: "16"
      - name: Get tag
        id: tag
        uses: dawidd6/action-get-tag@v1
@@ -168,25 +167,25 @@ jobs:
          node --version
          echo $DELTACHAT_NODE_TAR_GZ
      - name: Download Linux prebuild
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
        with:
          name: linux
      - name: Download macOS prebuild
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
        with:
          name: macos-latest
      - name: Download Windows prebuild
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
        with:
          name: windows-latest
      - shell: bash
        run: |
          mkdir node/prebuilds
-          tar -xvzf linux.tar.gz -C node/prebuilds
-          tar -xvzf macos-latest.tar.gz -C node/prebuilds
-          tar -xvzf windows-latest.tar.gz -C node/prebuilds
+          tar -xvzf linux/linux.tar.gz -C node/prebuilds
+          tar -xvzf macos-latest/macos-latest.tar.gz -C node/prebuilds
+          tar -xvzf windows-latest/windows-latest.tar.gz -C node/prebuilds
          tree node/prebuilds
-          rm -f linux.tar.gz macos-latest.tar.gz windows-latest.tar.gz
+          rm -rf linux macos-latest windows-latest
      - name: Install dependencies without running scripts
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts
@@ -204,7 +203,7 @@ jobs:
          ls -lah
          mv $(find deltachat-node-*) $DELTACHAT_NODE_TAR_GZ
      - name: Upload prebuild
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: deltachat-node.tgz
          path: ${{ env.DELTACHAT_NODE_TAR_GZ }}
--- a/.github/workflows/node-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/node-tests.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
-      - main
+      - master

 jobs:
  tests:
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: "18"
+          node-version: "16"
      - name: System info
        run: |
          rustc -vV
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
          node --version

      - name: Cache node modules
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            ${{ env.APPDATA }}/npm-cache
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
          key: ${{ matrix.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package.json') }}

      - name: Cache cargo index
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry/
@@ -64,5 +63,5 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: node
        run: npm run test
        env:
-          CHATMAIL_DOMAIN: ${{ secrets.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN }}
+          DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL }}
          NODE_OPTIONS: "--force-node-api-uncaught-exceptions-policy=true"
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-deltachat-rpc-client-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-deltachat-rpc-client-pypi.yml
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-name: Publish deltachat-rpc-client to PyPI
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  release:
-    types: [published]
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-    name: Build distribution
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - name: Install pypa/build
-        run: python3 -m pip install build
-      - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
-        working-directory: deltachat-rpc-client
-        run: python3 -m build
-      - name: Store the distribution packages
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: python-package-distributions
-          path: deltachat-rpc-client/dist/
-
-  publish-to-pypi:
-    name: Publish Python distribution to PyPI
-    if: github.event_name == 'release'
-    needs:
-      - build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    environment:
-      name: pypi
-      url: https://pypi.org/p/deltachat-rpc-client
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Download all the dists
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: python-package-distributions
-          path: dist/
-      - name: Publish deltachat-rpc-client to PyPI
-        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
--- a/.github/workflows/repl.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/repl.yml
@@ -10,17 +10,15 @@ on:
 jobs:
  build_repl:
    name: Build REPL example
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
      - name: Build
-        run: nix build .#deltachat-repl-win64
+        run: cargo build -p deltachat-repl --features vendored
+
      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: repl.exe
-          path: "result/bin/deltachat-repl.exe"
+          path: "target/debug/deltachat-repl.exe"
--- a/.github/workflows/upload-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/upload-docs.yml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
-name: Build & Deploy Documentation on rs.delta.chat, c.delta.chat, py.delta.chat
+name: Build & Deploy Documentation on rs.delta.chat

 on:
  push:
    branches:
-      - main
+      - master
+      - docs-gh-action

 jobs:
-  build-rs:
+  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Build the documentation with cargo
        run: |
          cargo doc --package deltachat --no-deps --document-private-items
@@ -24,41 +23,3 @@ jobs:
          HOST: "delta.chat"
          SOURCE: "target/doc"
          TARGET: "/var/www/html/rs/"
-
-  build-python:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch history to calculate VCS version number.
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
-      - name: Build Python documentation
-        run: nix build .#python-docs
-      - name: Upload to py.delta.chat
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p "$HOME/.ssh"
-          echo "${{ secrets.CODESPEAK_KEY }}" > "$HOME/.ssh/key"
-          chmod 600 "$HOME/.ssh/key"
-          rsync -avzh -e "ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/key -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/result/html/ "delta@py.delta.chat:/home/delta/build/master"
-
-  build-c:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
-          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch history to calculate VCS version number.
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
-      - name: Build C documentation
-        run: nix build .#docs
-      - name: Upload to py.delta.chat
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p "$HOME/.ssh"
-          echo "${{ secrets.CODESPEAK_KEY }}" > "$HOME/.ssh/key"
-          chmod 600 "$HOME/.ssh/key"
-          rsync -avzh -e "ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/key -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/result/html/ "delta@c.delta.chat:/home/delta/build-c/master"
--- a/.github/workflows/upload-ffi-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/upload-ffi-docs.yml
@@ -7,22 +7,23 @@ name: Build & Deploy Documentation on cffi.delta.chat
 on:
  push:
    branches:
-      - main
+      - master
+      - docs-gh-action

 jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          show-progress: false
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Build the documentation with cargo
        run: |
          cargo doc --package deltachat_ffi --no-deps
      - name: Upload to cffi.delta.chat
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p "$HOME/.ssh"
-          echo "${{ secrets.KEY }}" > "$HOME/.ssh/key"
-          chmod 600 "$HOME/.ssh/key"
-          rsync -avzh -e "ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/key -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/target/doc/ "${{ secrets.USERNAME }}@delta.chat:/var/www/html/cffi/"
+        uses: up9cloud/action-rsync@v1.3
+        env:
+          USER: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
+          KEY: ${{ secrets.KEY }}
+          HOST: "delta.chat"
+          SOURCE: "target/doc"
+          TARGET: "/var/www/html/cffi/"
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /target
 **/*.rs.bk
 /build
-/dist

 # ignore vi temporaries
 *~
@@ -19,9 +18,6 @@ python/.eggs
 __pycache__
 python/src/deltachat/capi*.so
 python/.venv/
-python/venv/
-venv/
-env/

 python/liveconfig*

@@ -44,10 +40,3 @@ node/build/
 node/dist/
 node/prebuilds/
 node/.nyc_output/
-
-# Nix symlink.
-result
-
-# direnv
-.envrc
-.direnv
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,14 +14,24 @@ endif()

 add_custom_command(
 	OUTPUT
-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/libdeltachat.a"
-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/libdeltachat.${DYNAMIC_EXT}"
-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/pkgconfig/deltachat.pc"
+	"target/release/libdeltachat.a"
+	"target/release/libdeltachat.${DYNAMIC_EXT}"
+	"target/release/pkgconfig/deltachat.pc"
        COMMAND
        PREFIX=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
        LIBDIR=${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}
        INCLUDEDIR=${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR}
-	${CARGO} build --target-dir=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target --release --no-default-features --features jsonrpc
+        ${CARGO} build --release --no-default-features --features jsonrpc
+
+	# Build in `deltachat-ffi` directory instead of using
+	# `--package deltachat_ffi` to avoid feature resolver version
+	# "1" bug which makes `--no-default-features` affect only
+	# `deltachat`, but not `deltachat-ffi` package.
+	#
+	# We can't enable version "2" resolver [1] because it is not
+	# stable yet on rust 1.50.0.
+	#
+	# [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/features.html#resolver-version-2-command-line-flags
 	WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/deltachat-ffi
 )

@@ -29,12 +39,12 @@ add_custom_target(
 	lib_deltachat
 	ALL
 	DEPENDS
-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/libdeltachat.a"
-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/libdeltachat.${DYNAMIC_EXT}"
-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/pkgconfig/deltachat.pc"
+	"target/release/libdeltachat.a"
+	"target/release/libdeltachat.${DYNAMIC_EXT}"
+	"target/release/pkgconfig/deltachat.pc"
 )

 install(FILES "deltachat-ffi/deltachat.h" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR})
-install(FILES "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/libdeltachat.a" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
-install(FILES "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/libdeltachat.${DYNAMIC_EXT}" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
-install(FILES "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/target/release/pkgconfig/deltachat.pc" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig)
+install(FILES "target/release/libdeltachat.a" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
+install(FILES "target/release/libdeltachat.${DYNAMIC_EXT}" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
+install(FILES "target/release/pkgconfig/deltachat.pc" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig)
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -86,17 +86,6 @@ For example:
 .with_context(|| format!("Unable to trash message {msg_id}"))
 ```

-All errors should be handled in one of these ways:
- With `if let Err() =` (incl. logging them into `warn!()`/`err!()`).
- With `.log_err().ok()`.
- Bubbled up with `?`.
-
-`backtrace` feature is enabled for `anyhow` crate
-and `debug = 1` option is set in the test profile.
-This allows to run `RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo test`
-and get a backtrace with line numbers in resultified tests
-which return `anyhow::Result`.
-
 ### Logging

 For logging, use `info!`, `warn!` and `error!` macros.
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.137.2"
+version = "1.123.0"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
-rust-version = "1.77"
-repository = "https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust"
+rust-version = "1.67"

 [profile.dev]
 debug = 0
@@ -12,10 +11,6 @@ panic = 'abort'
 opt-level = 1

 [profile.test]
-# Make anyhow `backtrace` feature useful.
-# With `debug = 0` there are no line numbers in the backtrace
-# produced with RUST_BACKTRACE=1.
-debug = 1
 opt-level = 0

 # Always optimize dependencies.
@@ -29,38 +24,37 @@ lto = true
 panic = 'abort'
 opt-level = "z"
 codegen-units = 1
-strip = true
+
+[patch.crates-io]
+quinn-udp = { git = "https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn", branch="main" }
+quinn-proto = { git = "https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn", branch="main" }

 [dependencies]
 deltachat_derive = { path = "./deltachat_derive" }
-deltachat-time = { path = "./deltachat-time" }
 format-flowed = { path = "./format-flowed" }
 ratelimit = { path = "./deltachat-ratelimit" }

 anyhow = "1"
-async-channel = "2.0.0"
-async-imap = { version = "0.9.7", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
+async-channel = "1.8.0"
+async-imap = { version = "0.9.1", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
 async-native-tls = { version = "0.5", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
 async-smtp = { version = "0.9", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
 async_zip = { version = "0.0.12", default-features = false, features = ["deflate", "fs"] }
 backtrace = "0.3"
 base64 = "0.21"
-brotli = { version = "4", default-features=false, features = ["std"] }
-bitflags = "1.3"
-bstr = { version = "1.4.0", default-features=false, features = ["std", "alloc"] }
+brotli = { version = "3.3", default-features=false, features = ["std"] }
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features=false, features = ["clock", "std"] }
 email = { git = "https://github.com/deltachat/rust-email", branch = "master" }
 encoded-words = { git = "https://github.com/async-email/encoded-words", branch = "master" }
 escaper = "0.1"
-fast-socks5 = "0.9"
-fd-lock = "4"
+fast-socks5 = "0.8"
+fd-lock = "3.0.11"
 futures = "0.3"
-futures-lite = "2.3.0"
+futures-lite = "1.13.0"
 hex = "0.4.0"
-hickory-resolver = "0.24"
 humansize = "2"
-image = { version = "0.25.1", default-features=false, features = ["gif", "jpeg", "ico", "png", "pnm", "webp", "bmp"] }
-iroh = { version = "0.4.2", default-features = false }
+image = { version = "0.24.7", default-features=false, features = ["gif", "jpeg", "ico", "png", "pnm", "webp", "bmp"] }
+iroh = { version = "0.4.1", default-features = false }
 kamadak-exif = "0.5"
 lettre_email = { git = "https://github.com/deltachat/lettre", branch = "master" }
 libc = "0.2"
@@ -72,55 +66,45 @@ num-traits = "0.2"
 once_cell = "1.18.0"
 percent-encoding = "2.3"
 parking_lot = "0.12"
-pgp = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
-pin-project = "1"
+pgp = { version = "0.10", default-features = false }
 pretty_env_logger = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 qrcodegen = "1.7.0"
-quick-xml = "0.31"
-quoted_printable = "0.5"
+quick-xml = "0.30"
 rand = "0.8"
-regex = "1.10"
-reqwest = { version = "0.12.2", features = ["json"] }
-rusqlite = { version = "0.31", features = ["sqlcipher"] }
+regex = "1.9"
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.20", features = ["json"] }
+rusqlite = { version = "0.29", features = ["sqlcipher"] }
 rust-hsluv = "0.1"
 sanitize-filename = "0.5"
-serde_json = "1"
+serde_json = "1.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 sha-1 = "0.10"
 sha2 = "0.10"
 smallvec = "1"
-strum = "0.26"
-strum_macros = "0.26"
+strum = "0.25"
+strum_macros = "0.25"
 tagger = "4.3.4"
-textwrap = "0.16.1"
+textwrap = "0.16.0"
 thiserror = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.0"
-tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.15", features = ["fs"] }
+tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.14", features = ["fs"] }
 tokio-tar = { version = "0.3" } # TODO: integrate tokio into async-tar
-tokio-util = "0.7.9"
-toml = "0.8"
+tokio-util = "0.7.8"
+toml = "0.7"
+trust-dns-resolver = "0.23"
 url = "2"
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }

-# Pin OpenSSL to 3.1 releases.
-# OpenSSL 3.2 has a regression tracked at <https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/23376>
-# which results in broken `deltachat-rpc-server` binaries when cross-compiled using Zig toolchain.
-# See <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/5206> for Delta Chat issue.
-# According to <https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html>
-# 3.1 branch will be supported until 2025-03-14.
-openssl-src = "~300.1"
-
 [dev-dependencies]
 ansi_term = "0.12.0"
-anyhow = { version = "1", features = ["backtrace"] } # Enable `backtrace` feature in tests.
 criterion = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["async_tokio"] }
-futures-lite = "2.3.0"
+futures-lite = "1.13"
 log = "0.4"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
 proptest = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 tempfile = "3"
-testdir = "0.9.0"
+testdir = "0.8.0"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["parking_lot", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 pretty_assertions = "1.3.0"

@@ -132,7 +116,6 @@ members = [
  "deltachat-rpc-server",
  "deltachat-ratelimit",
  "deltachat-repl",
-  "deltachat-time",
  "format-flowed",
 ]

--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 </p>

 <p align="center">
-  <a href="https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/actions/workflows/ci.yml">
-    <img alt="Rust CI" src="https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg">
+  <a href="https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody/actions/workflows/rust.yml">
+    <img alt="Rust CI" src="https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody/actions/workflows/rust.yml/badge.svg">
  </a>
 </p>

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ $ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
 Compile and run Delta Chat Core command line utility, using `cargo`:

 ```
-$ cargo run -p deltachat-repl -- ~/deltachat-db
+$ RUST_LOG=deltachat_repl=info cargo run -p deltachat-repl -- ~/deltachat-db
 ```
 where ~/deltachat-db is the database file. Delta Chat will create it if it does not exist.

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ $ cargo build -p deltachat_ffi --release

 - `DCC_MIME_DEBUG`: if set outgoing and incoming message will be printed 

- `RUST_LOG=async_imap=trace,async_smtp=trace`: enable IMAP and
+- `RUST_LOG=deltachat_repl=info,async_imap=trace,async_smtp=trace`: enable IMAP and
 SMTP tracing in addition to info messages.

 ### Expensive tests
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -9,16 +9,13 @@ For example, to release version 1.116.0 of the core, do the following steps.

 3. Update the changelog: `git cliff --unreleased --tag 1.116.0 --prepend CHANGELOG.md` or `git cliff -u -t 1.116.0 -p CHANGELOG.md`.

-4. add a link to compare previous with current version to the end of CHANGELOG.md:
-  `[1.116.0]: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/compare/v1.115.2...v1.116.0`
+4. Update the version by running `scripts/set_core_version.py 1.116.0`.

-5. Update the version by running `scripts/set_core_version.py 1.116.0`.
-
-6. Commit the changes as `chore(release): prepare for 1.116.0`.
+5. Commit the changes as `chore(release): prepare for 1.116.0`.
   Optionally, use a separate branch like `prep-1.116.0` for this commit and open a PR for review.

-7. Tag the release: `git tag -a v1.116.0`.
+6. Tag the release: `git tag -a v1.116.0`.

-8. Push the release tag: `git push origin v1.116.0`.
+7. Push the release tag: `git push origin v1.116.0`.

-9. Create a GitHub release: `gh release create v1.116.0 -n ''`.
+8. Create a GitHub release: `gh release create v1.116.0 -n ''`.
--- a/assets/welcome-image.jpg
+++ b/assets/welcome-image.jpg
--- a/cliff.toml
+++ b/cliff.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ header = """
 # Changelog\n
 """
 # template for the changelog body
-# https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/#templates
+# https://tera.netlify.app/docs/#introduction
 body = """
 {% if version %}\
    ## [{{ version | trim_start_matches(pat="v") }}] - {{ timestamp | date(format="%Y-%m-%d") }}
@@ -77,17 +77,3 @@ body = """
 """
 # remove the leading and trailing whitespace from the template
 trim = true
-footer = """
-{% for release in releases -%}
-    {% if release.version -%}
-        {% if release.previous.version -%}
-            [{{ release.version | trim_start_matches(pat="v") }}]: \
-                https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust\
-                    /compare/{{ release.previous.version }}..{{ release.version }}
-        {% endif -%}
-    {% else -%}
-        [unreleased]: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust\
-            /compare/{{ release.previous.version }}..HEAD
-    {% endif -%}
-{% endfor %}
-"""
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.137.2"
+version = "1.123.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 edition = "2018"
 readme = "README.md"
--- a/deltachat-ffi/DoxygenLayout.xml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/DoxygenLayout.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
      <tab type="hierarchy" visible="no" title="" intro=""/>
      <tab type="classmembers" visible="no" title="" intro=""/>
    </tab>
-    <tab type="topics" visible="yes" title="Constants" intro="Here is a list of constants:"/>
+    <tab type="modules" visible="yes" title="Constants" intro="Here is a list of constants:"/>
    <tab type="pages" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
    <tab type="namespaces" visible="yes" title="">
      <tab type="namespacelist" visible="yes" title="" intro=""/>
--- a/deltachat-ffi/deltachat.h
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/deltachat.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ typedef struct _dc_event     dc_event_t;
 typedef struct _dc_event_emitter dc_event_emitter_t;
 typedef struct _dc_jsonrpc_instance dc_jsonrpc_instance_t;
 typedef struct _dc_backup_provider dc_backup_provider_t;
+typedef struct _dc_http_response dc_http_response_t;

 // Alias for backwards compatibility, use dc_event_emitter_t instead.
 typedef struct _dc_event_emitter dc_accounts_event_emitter_t;
@@ -383,12 +384,7 @@ char*           dc_get_blobdir               (const dc_context_t* context);
 /**
 * Configure the context. The configuration is handled by key=value pairs as:
 *
- * - `addr`         = Email address to use for configuration.
- *                    If dc_configure() fails this is not the email address actually in use.
- *                    Use `configured_addr` to find out the email address actually in use.
- * - `configured_addr` = Email address actually in use.
- *                    Unless for testing, do not set this value using dc_set_config().
- *                    Instead, set `addr` and call dc_configure().
+ * - `addr`         = address to display (always needed)
 * - `mail_server`  = IMAP-server, guessed if left out
 * - `mail_user`    = IMAP-username, guessed if left out
 * - `mail_pw`      = IMAP-password (always needed)
@@ -423,16 +419,19 @@ char*           dc_get_blobdir               (const dc_context_t* context);
 *                    Sending messages to self is needed for a proper multi-account setup,
 *                    however, on the other hand, may lead to unwanted notifications in non-delta clients.
 * - `sentbox_watch`= 1=watch `Sent`-folder for changes,
- *                    0=do not watch the `Sent`-folder (default).
+ *                    0=do not watch the `Sent`-folder (default),
+ *                    changes require restarting IO by calling dc_stop_io() and then dc_start_io().
 * - `mvbox_move`   = 1=detect chat messages,
 *                    move them to the `DeltaChat` folder,
 *                    and watch the `DeltaChat` folder for updates (default),
 *                    0=do not move chat-messages
+ *                    changes require restarting IO by calling dc_stop_io() and then dc_start_io().
 * - `only_fetch_mvbox` = 1=Do not fetch messages from folders other than the
 *                    `DeltaChat` folder. Messages will still be fetched from the
 *                    spam folder and `sendbox_watch` will also still be respected
 *                    if enabled.
 *                    0=watch all folders normally (default)
+ *                    changes require restarting IO by calling dc_stop_io() and then dc_start_io().
 * - `show_emails`  = DC_SHOW_EMAILS_OFF (0)=
 *                    show direct replies to chats only,
 *                    DC_SHOW_EMAILS_ACCEPTED_CONTACTS (1)=
@@ -493,9 +492,6 @@ char*           dc_get_blobdir               (const dc_context_t* context);
 * - `fetch_existing_msgs` = 1=fetch most recent existing messages on configure (default),
 *                    0=do not fetch existing messages on configure.
 *                    In both cases, existing recipients are added to the contact database.
- * - `disable_idle` = 1=disable IMAP IDLE even if the server supports it,
- *                    0=use IMAP IDLE if the server supports it.
- *                    This is a developer option used for testing polling used as an IDLE fallback.
 * - `download_limit` = Messages up to this number of bytes are downloaded automatically.
 *                    For larger messages, only the header is downloaded and a placeholder is shown.
 *                    These messages can be downloaded fully using dc_download_full_msg() later.
@@ -504,9 +500,6 @@ char*           dc_get_blobdir               (const dc_context_t* context);
 *                    to not mess up with non-delivery-reports or read-receipts.
 *                    0=no limit (default).
 *                    Changes affect future messages only.
- * - `gossip_period` = How often to gossip Autocrypt keys in chats with multiple recipients, in
- *                    seconds. 2 days by default.
- *                    This is not supposed to be changed by UIs and only used for testing.
 * - `verified_one_on_one_chats` = Feature flag for verified 1:1 chats; the UI should set it
 *                    to 1 if it supports verified 1:1 chats.
 *                    Regardless of this setting, `dc_chat_is_protected()` returns true while the key is verified,
@@ -686,25 +679,8 @@ int             dc_get_connectivity          (dc_context_t* context);
 char*           dc_get_connectivity_html     (dc_context_t* context);


-#define DC_PUSH_NOT_CONNECTED 0
-#define DC_PUSH_HEARTBEAT     1
-#define DC_PUSH_CONNECTED     2
-
-/**
- * Get the current push notification state.
- * One of:
- * - DC_PUSH_NOT_CONNECTED
- * - DC_PUSH_HEARTBEAT
- * - DC_PUSH_CONNECTED
- *
- * @memberof dc_context_t
- * @param context The context object.
- * @return Push notification state.
- */
-int              dc_get_push_state           (dc_context_t* context);
-
-
 /**
+ * Standalone version of dc_accounts_all_work_done().
 * Only used by the python tests.
 */
 int             dc_all_work_done             (dc_context_t* context);
@@ -855,7 +831,7 @@ void            dc_maybe_network             (dc_context_t* context);
 * @param context The context as created by dc_context_new().
 * @param addr The e-mail address of the user. This must match the
 *    configured_addr setting of the context as well as the UID of the key.
- * @param public_data Ignored, actual public key is extracted from secret_data.
+ * @param public_data ASCII armored public key.
 * @param secret_data ASCII armored secret key.
 * @return 1 on success, 0 on failure.
 */
@@ -909,8 +885,7 @@ int             dc_preconfigure_keypair        (dc_context_t* context, const cha
 *     - if the flag DC_GCL_ADD_ALLDONE_HINT is set, DC_CHAT_ID_ALLDONE_HINT
 *       is added as needed.
 * @param query_str An optional query for filtering the list. Only chats matching this query
- *     are returned. Give NULL for no filtering. When `is:unread` is contained in the query,
- *     the chatlist is filtered such that only chats with unread messages show up.
+ *     are returned. Give NULL for no filtering.
 * @param query_id An optional contact ID for filtering the list. Only chats including this contact ID
 *     are returned. Give 0 for no filtering.
 * @return A chatlist as an dc_chatlist_t object.
@@ -1125,7 +1100,6 @@ uint32_t dc_send_videochat_invitation (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t chat_id);
 * received overrides all previously received reactions. It is
 * possible to remove all reactions by sending an empty string.
 *
- * @deprecated 2023-11-27, use jsonrpc method `send_reaction` instead
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object.
 * @param msg_id ID of the message you react to.
@@ -1138,7 +1112,6 @@ uint32_t dc_send_reaction (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t msg_id, char *reactio
 /**
 * Get a structure with reactions to the message.
 *
- * @deprecated 2023-11-27, use jsonrpc method `get_message_reactions` instead
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object.
 * @param msg_id The message ID to get reactions for.
@@ -1515,7 +1488,6 @@ dc_array_t*     dc_get_chat_media            (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t ch
 * Typically used to implement the "next" and "previous" buttons
 * in a gallery or in a media player.
 *
- * @deprecated Deprecated 2023-10-03, use dc_get_chat_media() and navigate the returned array instead.
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object as returned from dc_context_new().
 * @param msg_id The ID of the current message from which the next or previous message should be searched.
@@ -1727,12 +1699,24 @@ uint32_t        dc_create_group_chat         (dc_context_t* context, int protect
 * Create a new broadcast list.
 *
 * Broadcast lists are similar to groups on the sending device,
- * however, recipients get the messages in a read-only chat
- * and will see who the other members are.
+ * however, recipients get the messages in normal one-to-one chats
+ * and will not be aware of other members.
 *
- * For historical reasons, this function does not take a name directly,
- * instead you have to set the name using dc_set_chat_name()
- * after creating the broadcast list.
+ * Replies to broadcasts go only to the sender
+ * and not to all broadcast recipients.
+ * Moreover, replies will not appear in the broadcast list
+ * but in the one-to-one chat with the person answering.
+ *
+ * The name and the image of the broadcast list is set automatically
+ * and is visible to the sender only.
+ * Not asking for these data allows more focused creation
+ * and we bypass the question who will get which data.
+ * Also, many users will have at most one broadcast list
+ * so, a generic name and image is sufficient at the first place.
+ *
+ * Later on, however, the name can be changed using dc_set_chat_name().
+ * The image cannot be changed to have a unique, recognizable icon in the chat lists.
+ * All in all, this is also what other messengers are doing here.
 *
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object.
@@ -2275,7 +2259,8 @@ dc_contact_t*   dc_get_contact               (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t co
 *   the backup is not encrypted.
 *   The backup contains all contacts, chats, images and other data and device independent settings.
 *   The backup does not contain device dependent settings as ringtones or LED notification settings.
- *   The name of the backup is `delta-chat-backup-<day>-<number>-<addr>.tar`.
+ *   The name of the backup is typically `delta-chat-<day>.tar`, if more than one backup is create on a day,
+ *   the format is `delta-chat-<day>-<number>.tar`
 *
 * - **DC_IMEX_IMPORT_BACKUP** (12) - `param1` is the file (not: directory) to import. `param2` is the passphrase.
 *   The file is normally created by DC_IMEX_EXPORT_BACKUP and detected by dc_imex_has_backup(). Importing a backup
@@ -2576,7 +2561,7 @@ dc_lot_t*       dc_check_qr                  (dc_context_t* context, const char*
 *     the Verified-Group-Invite protocol is offered in the QR code;
 *     works for protected groups as well as for normal groups.
 *     If set to 0, the Setup-Contact protocol is offered in the QR code.
- *     See https://securejoin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
+ *     See https://countermitm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
 *     for details about both protocols.
 * @return The text that should go to the QR code,
 *     On errors, an empty QR code is returned, NULL is never returned.
@@ -2612,7 +2597,7 @@ char*           dc_get_securejoin_qr_svg         (dc_context_t* context, uint32_
 *
 * Subsequent calls of dc_join_securejoin() will abort previous, unfinished handshakes.
 *
- * See https://securejoin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
+ * See https://countermitm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
 * for details about both protocols.
 *
 * @memberof dc_context_t
@@ -2956,6 +2941,7 @@ int dc_receive_backup (dc_context_t* context, const char* qr);
 * use dc_accounts_remove_account().
 *
 * @memberof dc_accounts_t
+ * @param os_name
 * @param dir The directory to create the context-databases in.
 *     If the directory does not exist,
 *     dc_accounts_new() will try to create it.
@@ -3098,6 +3084,23 @@ dc_context_t*  dc_accounts_get_selected_account (dc_accounts_t* accounts);
 int            dc_accounts_select_account       (dc_accounts_t* accounts, uint32_t account_id);


+/**
+ * This is meant especially for iOS, because iOS needs to tell the system when its background work is done.
+ *
+ * iOS can:
+ * - call dc_start_io() (in case IO was not running)
+ * - call dc_maybe_network()
+ * - while dc_accounts_all_work_done() returns false:
+ *   - Wait for #DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_accounts_t
+ * @param accounts The account manager as created by dc_accounts_new().
+ * @return Whether all accounts finished their background work.
+ *      #DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED will be sent when this turns to true.
+ */
+int            dc_accounts_all_work_done        (dc_accounts_t* accounts);
+
+
 /**
 * Start job and IMAP/SMTP tasks for all accounts managed by the account manager.
 * If IO is already running, nothing happens.
@@ -3148,33 +3151,6 @@ void           dc_accounts_maybe_network        (dc_accounts_t* accounts);
 void           dc_accounts_maybe_network_lost    (dc_accounts_t* accounts);


-/**
- * Perform a background fetch for all accounts in parallel with a timeout.
- * Pauses the scheduler, fetches messages from imap and then resumes the scheduler.
- *
- * dc_accounts_background_fetch() was created for the iOS Background fetch.
- *
- * The `DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE` event is emitted at the end
- * even in case of timeout, unless the function fails and returns 0.
- * Process all events until you get this one and you can safely return to the background
- * without forgetting to create notifications caused by timing race conditions.
- *
- * @memberof dc_accounts_t
- * @param timeout The timeout in seconds
- * @return Return 1 if DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE was emitted and 0 otherwise.
- */
-int            dc_accounts_background_fetch    (dc_accounts_t* accounts, uint64_t timeout);
-
-
-/**
- * Sets device token for Apple Push Notification service.
- * Returns immediately.
- *
- * @memberof dc_accounts_t
- * @param token Hexadecimal device token
- */
-void           dc_accounts_set_push_device_token (dc_accounts_t* accounts, const char *token);
-
 /**
 * Create the event emitter that is used to receive events.
 *
@@ -3756,22 +3732,8 @@ int             dc_chat_can_send              (const dc_chat_t* chat);

 /**
 * Check if a chat is protected.
- *
- * End-to-end encryption is guaranteed in protected chats
- * and only verified contacts
- * as determined by dc_contact_is_verified()
- * can be added to protected chats.
- *
- * Protected chats are created using dc_create_group_chat()
- * by setting the 'protect' parameter to 1.
- * 1:1 chats become protected or unprotected automatically
- * if `verified_one_on_one_chats` setting is enabled.
- *
- * UI should display a green checkmark
- * in the chat title,
- * in the chatlist item
- * and in the chat profile
- * if chat protection is enabled.
+ * Protected chats contain only verified members and encryption is always enabled.
+ * Protected chats are created using dc_create_group_chat() by setting the 'protect' parameter to 1.
 *
 * @memberof dc_chat_t
 * @param chat The chat object.
@@ -4004,7 +3966,7 @@ int64_t          dc_msg_get_received_timestamp (const dc_msg_t* msg);
 * Get the message time used for sorting.
 * This function returns the timestamp that is used for sorting the message
 * into lists as returned e.g. by dc_get_chat_msgs().
- * This may be the received time, the sending time or another time.
+ * This may be the reveived time, the sending time or another time.
 *
 * To get the receiving time, use dc_msg_get_received_timestamp().
 * To get the sending time, use dc_msg_get_timestamp().
@@ -4421,9 +4383,6 @@ int             dc_msg_is_info                (const dc_msg_t* msg);
 * Currently, the following types are defined:
 * - DC_INFO_PROTECTION_ENABLED (11) - Info-message for "Chat is now protected"
 * - DC_INFO_PROTECTION_DISABLED (12) - Info-message for "Chat is no longer protected"
- * - DC_INFO_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL (13) - Info-message for "Provider requires end-to-end encryption which is not setup yet",
- *   the UI should change the corresponding string using #DC_STR_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL
- *   and also offer a way to fix the encryption, eg. by a button offering a QR scan
 *
 * Even when you display an icon,
 * you should still display the text of the informational message using dc_msg_get_text()
@@ -4450,7 +4409,6 @@ int             dc_msg_get_info_type          (const dc_msg_t* msg);
 #define         DC_INFO_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_CHANGED   10
 #define         DC_INFO_PROTECTION_ENABLED        11
 #define         DC_INFO_PROTECTION_DISABLED       12
-#define         DC_INFO_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL  13
 #define         DC_INFO_WEBXDC_INFO_MESSAGE       32

 /**
@@ -4609,18 +4567,15 @@ int dc_msg_has_html (dc_msg_t* msg);
  * if they are larger than the limit set by the dc_set_config()-option `download_limit`.
  *
  * The function returns one of:
-  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_DONE           - The message does not need any further download action
-  *                                     and should be rendered as usual.
-  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_AVAILABLE      - There is additional content to download.
-  *                                     In addition to the usual message rendering,
-  *                                     the UI shall show a download button that calls dc_download_full_msg()
-  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_IN_PROGRESS    - Download was started with dc_download_full_msg() and is still in progress.
-  *                                     If the download fails or succeeds,
-  *                                     the event @ref DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED is emitted.
-  *
-  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_UNDECIPHERABLE - The message does not need any futher download action.
-  *                                     It was fully downloaded, but we failed to decrypt it.
-  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE        - Download error, the user may start over calling dc_download_full_msg() again.
+  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_DONE        - The message does not need any further download action
+  *                                  and should be rendered as usual.
+  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_AVAILABLE   - There is additional content to download.
+  *                                  In addition to the usual message rendering,
+  *                                  the UI shall show a download button that calls dc_download_full_msg()
+  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_IN_PROGRESS - Download was started with dc_download_full_msg() and is still in progress.
+  *                                  If the download fails or succeeds,
+  *                                  the event @ref DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED is emitted.
+  * - @ref DC_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE     - Download error, the user may start over calling dc_download_full_msg() again.
  *
  * @memberof dc_msg_t
  * @param msg The message object.
@@ -5078,16 +5033,10 @@ int             dc_contact_is_blocked        (const dc_contact_t* contact);


 /**
- * Check if the contact
- * can be added to verified chats,
- * i.e. has a verified key
- * and Autocrypt key matches the verified key.
+ * Check if a contact was verified. E.g. by a secure-join QR code scan
+ * and if the key has not changed since this verification.
 *
- * If contact is verified
- * UI should display green checkmark after the contact name
- * in contact list items,
- * in chat member list items
- * and in profiles if no chat with the contact exist (otherwise, use dc_chat_is_protected()).
+ * The UI may draw a checkbox or something like that beside verified contacts.
 *
 * @memberof dc_contact_t
 * @param contact The contact object.
@@ -5096,34 +5045,37 @@ int             dc_contact_is_blocked        (const dc_contact_t* contact);
 */
 int             dc_contact_is_verified       (dc_contact_t* contact);

-/**
- * Returns whether contact is a bot.
- *
- * @memberof dc_contact_t
- * @param contact The contact object.
- * @return 0 if the contact is not a bot, 1 otherwise.
- */
-int             dc_contact_is_bot            (dc_contact_t* contact);


 /**
- * Return the contact ID that verified a contact.
+ * Return the address that verified a contact
 *
- * If the function returns non-zero result,
- * display green checkmark in the profile and "Introduced by ..." line
- * with the name and address of the contact
- * formatted by dc_contact_get_name_n_addr.
- *
- * If this function returns a verifier,
- * this does not necessarily mean
- * you can add the contact to verified chats.
- * Use dc_contact_is_verified() to check
- * if a contact can be added to a verified chat instead.
+ * The UI may use this in addition to a checkmark showing the verification status.
+ * In case of verification chains,
+ * the last contact in the chain is shown.
+ * This is because of privacy reasons, but also as it would not help the user
+ * to see a unknown name here - where one can mostly always ask the shown name
+ * as it is directly known.
 *
 * @memberof dc_contact_t
 * @param contact The contact object.
 * @return 
- *    The contact ID of the verifier. If it is DC_CONTACT_ID_SELF,
+ *    A string containing the verifiers address. If it is the same address as the contact itself,
+ *    we verified the contact ourself. If it is an empty string, we don't have verifier 
+ *    information or the contact is not verified.
+ */
+char*           dc_contact_get_verifier_addr       (dc_contact_t* contact);
+
+
+/**
+ * Return the `ContactId` that verified a contact
+ *
+ * The UI may use this in addition to a checkmark showing the verification status
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_contact_t
+ * @param contact The contact object.
+ * @return 
+ *    The `ContactId` of the verifiers address. If it is the same address as the contact itself,
 *    we verified the contact ourself. If it is 0, we don't have verifier information or 
 *    the contact is not verified.
 */
@@ -5223,6 +5175,72 @@ int             dc_provider_get_status                (const dc_provider_t* prov
 void            dc_provider_unref                     (dc_provider_t* provider);


+/**
+ * Return an HTTP(S) GET response.
+ * This function can be used to download remote content for HTML emails.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_context_t
+ * @param context The context object to take proxy settings from.
+ * @param url HTTP or HTTPS URL.
+ * @return The response must be released using dc_http_response_unref() after usage.
+ *     NULL is returned on errors.
+ */
+dc_http_response_t*     dc_get_http_response      (const dc_context_t* context, const char* url);
+
+
+/**
+ * @class dc_http_response_t
+ *
+ * An object containing an HTTP(S) GET response.
+ * Created by dc_get_http_response().
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * Returns HTTP response MIME type as a string, e.g. "text/plain" or "text/html".
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_http_response_t
+ * @param response HTTP response as returned by dc_get_http_response().
+ * @return The string which must be released using dc_str_unref() after usage. May be NULL.
+ */
+char*                   dc_http_response_get_mimetype (const dc_http_response_t* response);
+
+/**
+ * Returns HTTP response encoding, e.g. "utf-8".
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_http_response_t
+ * @param response HTTP response as returned by dc_get_http_response().
+ * @return The string which must be released using dc_str_unref() after usage. May be NULL.
+ */
+char*                   dc_http_response_get_encoding (const dc_http_response_t* response);
+
+/**
+ * Returns HTTP response contents.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_http_response_t
+ * @param response HTTP response as returned by dc_get_http_response().
+ * @return The blob which must be released using dc_str_unref() after usage. NULL is never returned.
+ */
+uint8_t*                dc_http_response_get_blob     (const dc_http_response_t* response);
+
+/**
+ * Returns HTTP response content size.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_http_response_t
+ * @param response HTTP response as returned by dc_get_http_response().
+ * @return The blob size.
+ */
+size_t                  dc_http_response_get_size     (const dc_http_response_t* response);
+
+/**
+ * Free an HTTP response object.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_http_response_t
+ * @param response HTTP response as returned by dc_get_http_response().
+ */
+void                    dc_http_response_unref        (const dc_http_response_t* response);
+
+
 /**
 * @class dc_lot_t
 *
@@ -5322,7 +5340,6 @@ int64_t         dc_lot_get_timestamp     (const dc_lot_t* lot);

 /**
 * @class dc_reactions_t
- * @deprecated 2023-11-27, use jsonrpc method `get_message_reactions` instead
 *
 * An object representing all reactions for a single message.
 */
@@ -5330,7 +5347,6 @@ int64_t         dc_lot_get_timestamp     (const dc_lot_t* lot);
 /**
 * Returns array of contacts which reacted to the given message.
 *
- * @deprecated 2023-11-27, use jsonrpc method `get_message_reactions` instead
 * @memberof dc_reactions_t
 * @param reactions The object containing message reactions.
 * @return array of contact IDs. Use dc_array_get_cnt() to get array length and
@@ -5342,7 +5358,6 @@ dc_array_t*     dc_reactions_get_contacts(dc_reactions_t* reactions);
 /**
 * Returns a string containing space-separated reactions of a single contact.
 *
- * @deprecated 2023-11-27, use jsonrpc method `get_message_reactions` instead
 * @memberof dc_reactions_t
 * @param reactions The object containing message reactions.
 * @param contact_id ID of the contact.
@@ -5358,7 +5373,6 @@ char*           dc_reactions_get_by_contact_id(dc_reactions_t* reactions, uint32
 *
 * Reactions objects are created by dc_get_msg_reactions().
 *
- * @deprecated 2023-11-27
 * @memberof dc_reactions_t
 * @param reactions The object to free.
 *     If NULL is given, nothing is done.
@@ -6056,12 +6070,10 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 * Downloading a bunch of messages just finished. This is an
 * event to allow the UI to only show one notification per message bunch,
 * instead of cluttering the user with many notifications.
- * UI may store #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG events
- * and display notifications for all messages at once
- * when this event arrives.
+ * For each of the msg_ids, an additional #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG event was emitted before.
 * 
 * @param data1 0
- * @param data2 0
+ * @param data2 (char*) msg_ids, a json object with the message ids.
 */
 #define DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG_BUNCH       2006

@@ -6221,7 +6233,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 * @param data2 (int) The progress as:
 *     400=vg-/vc-request-with-auth sent, typically shown as "alice@addr verified, introducing myself."
 *     (Bob has verified alice and waits until Alice does the same for him)
- *     1000=vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm received
 */
 #define DC_EVENT_SECUREJOIN_JOINER_PROGRESS       2061

@@ -6245,18 +6256,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 #define DC_EVENT_SELFAVATAR_CHANGED               2110


-/**
- * A multi-device synced config value changed. Maybe the app needs to refresh smth. For uniformity
- * this is emitted on the source device too. The value isn't reported, otherwise it would be logged
- * which might not be good for privacy. You can get the new value with
- * `dc_get_config(context, data2)`.
- *
- * @param data1 0
- * @param data2 (char*) Configuration key.
- */
-#define DC_EVENT_CONFIG_SYNCED                    2111
-
-
 /**
 * webxdc status update received.
 * To get the received status update, use dc_get_webxdc_status_updates() with
@@ -6281,16 +6280,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);

 #define DC_EVENT_WEBXDC_INSTANCE_DELETED          2121

-/**
- * Tells that the Background fetch was completed (or timed out).
- *
- * This event acts as a marker, when you reach this event you can be sure
- * that all events emitted during the background fetch were processed.
- * 
- * This event is only emitted by the account manager
- */
-
-#define DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE  2200

 /**
 * @}
@@ -6436,27 +6425,22 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /**
 * Download not needed, see dc_msg_get_download_state() for details.
 */
-#define DC_DOWNLOAD_DONE           0
+#define DC_DOWNLOAD_DONE          0

 /**
 * Download available, see dc_msg_get_download_state() for details.
 */
-#define DC_DOWNLOAD_AVAILABLE      10
+#define DC_DOWNLOAD_AVAILABLE    10

 /**
 * Download failed, see dc_msg_get_download_state() for details.
 */
-#define DC_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE        20
-
-/**
- * Download not needed, see dc_msg_get_download_state() for details.
- */
-#define DC_DOWNLOAD_UNDECIPHERABLE 30
+#define DC_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE      20

 /**
 * Download in progress, see dc_msg_get_download_state() for details.
 */
-#define DC_DOWNLOAD_IN_PROGRESS    1000
+#define DC_DOWNLOAD_IN_PROGRESS  1000



@@ -6621,7 +6605,7 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// - %1$s will be replaced by the name of the verified contact
 #define DC_STR_CONTACT_VERIFIED           35

-/// "Cannot establish guaranteed end-to-end encryption with %1$s."
+/// "Cannot verify %1$s."
 ///
 /// Used in status messages.
 /// - %1$s will be replaced by the name of the contact that cannot be verified
@@ -7059,8 +7043,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// "You added member %1$s."
 ///
 /// Used in status messages.
-///
-/// `%1$s` will be replaced by the added member's name.
 #define DC_STR_ADD_MEMBER_BY_YOU 128

 /// "Member %1$s added by %2$s."
@@ -7277,42 +7259,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// Used in info messages.
 #define DC_STR_CHAT_PROTECTION_DISABLED 171

-/// "Others will only see this group after you sent a first message."
-///
-/// Used as the first info messages in newly created groups.
-#define DC_STR_NEW_GROUP_SEND_FIRST_MESSAGE 172
-
-/// "Member %1$s added."
-///
-/// Used as info messages.
-///
-/// `%1$s` will be replaced by the added member's name.
-#define DC_STR_MESSAGE_ADD_MEMBER 173
-
-/// "Your email provider %1$s requires end-to-end encryption which is not setup yet."
-///
-/// Used as info messages when a message cannot be sent because it cannot be encrypted.
-///
-/// `%1$s` will be replaced by the provider's domain.
-#define DC_STR_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL 174
-
-/// "You reacted %1$s to '%2$s'"
-///
-/// `%1$s` will be replaced by the reaction, usually an emoji
-/// `%2$s` will be replaced by the summary of the message the reaction refers to
-///
-/// Used in summaries.
-#define DC_STR_YOU_REACTED 176
-
-/// "%1$s reacted %2$s to '%3$s'"
-///
-/// `%1$s` will be replaced by the name the contact who reacted
-/// `%2$s` will be replaced by the reaction, usually an emoji
-/// `%3$s` will be replaced by the summary of the message the reaction refers to
-///
-/// Used in summaries.
-#define DC_STR_REACTED_BY 177
-
 /**
 * @}
 */
--- a/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
@@ -26,14 +26,16 @@ use anyhow::Context as _;
 use deltachat::chat::{ChatId, ChatVisibility, MessageListOptions, MuteDuration, ProtectionStatus};
 use deltachat::constants::DC_MSG_ID_LAST_SPECIAL;
 use deltachat::contact::{Contact, ContactId, Origin};
-use deltachat::context::{Context, ContextBuilder};
+use deltachat::context::Context;
 use deltachat::ephemeral::Timer as EphemeralTimer;
 use deltachat::imex::BackupProvider;
 use deltachat::key::preconfigure_keypair;
 use deltachat::message::MsgId;
+use deltachat::net::read_url_blob;
 use deltachat::qr_code_generator::{generate_backup_qr, get_securejoin_qr_svg};
 use deltachat::reaction::{get_msg_reactions, send_reaction, Reactions};
 use deltachat::stock_str::StockMessage;
+use deltachat::stock_str::StockStrings;
 use deltachat::webxdc::StatusUpdateSerial;
 use deltachat::*;
 use deltachat::{accounts::Accounts, log::LogExt};
@@ -103,11 +105,12 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_context_new(
    let ctx = if blobdir.is_null() || *blobdir == 0 {
        // generate random ID as this functionality is not yet available on the C-api.
        let id = rand::thread_rng().gen();
-        block_on(
-            ContextBuilder::new(as_path(dbfile).to_path_buf())
-                .with_id(id)
-                .open(),
-        )
+        block_on(Context::new(
+            as_path(dbfile),
+            id,
+            Events::new(),
+            StockStrings::new(),
+        ))
    } else {
        eprintln!("blobdir can not be defined explicitly anymore");
        return ptr::null_mut();
@@ -131,11 +134,12 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_context_new_closed(dbfile: *const libc::c_char) -> *
    }

    let id = rand::thread_rng().gen();
-    match block_on(
-        ContextBuilder::new(as_path(dbfile).to_path_buf())
-            .with_id(id)
-            .build(),
-    ) {
+    match block_on(Context::new_closed(
+        as_path(dbfile),
+        id,
+        Events::new(),
+        StockStrings::new(),
+    )) {
        Ok(context) => Box::into_raw(Box::new(context)),
        Err(err) => {
            eprintln!("failed to create context: {err:#}");
@@ -384,7 +388,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_connectivity(context: *const dc_context_t) -> li
        return 0;
    }
    let ctx = &*context;
-    block_on(ctx.get_connectivity()) as u32 as libc::c_int
+    block_on(async move { ctx.get_connectivity().await as u32 as libc::c_int })
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -407,16 +411,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_connectivity_html(
    })
 }

-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_push_state(context: *const dc_context_t) -> libc::c_int {
-    if context.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_get_push_state()");
-        return 0;
-    }
-    let ctx = &*context;
-    block_on(ctx.push_state()) as libc::c_int
-}
-
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_all_work_done(context: *mut dc_context_t) -> libc::c_int {
    if context.is_null() {
@@ -495,7 +489,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_start_io(context: *mut dc_context_t) {
    if context.is_null() {
        return;
    }
-    let ctx = &mut *context;
+    let ctx = &*context;

    block_on(ctx.start_io())
 }
@@ -563,10 +557,8 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_id(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc::c_int
        EventType::SecurejoinJoinerProgress { .. } => 2061,
        EventType::ConnectivityChanged => 2100,
        EventType::SelfavatarChanged => 2110,
-        EventType::ConfigSynced { .. } => 2111,
        EventType::WebxdcStatusUpdate { .. } => 2120,
        EventType::WebxdcInstanceDeleted { .. } => 2121,
-        EventType::AccountsBackgroundFetchDone => 2200,
    }
 }

@@ -592,10 +584,8 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data1_int(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc:
        | EventType::Error(_)
        | EventType::ConnectivityChanged
        | EventType::SelfavatarChanged
-        | EventType::ConfigSynced { .. }
        | EventType::IncomingMsgBunch { .. }
-        | EventType::ErrorSelfNotInGroup(_)
-        | EventType::AccountsBackgroundFetchDone => 0,
+        | EventType::ErrorSelfNotInGroup(_) => 0,
        EventType::MsgsChanged { chat_id, .. }
        | EventType::ReactionsChanged { chat_id, .. }
        | EventType::IncomingMsg { chat_id, .. }
@@ -654,9 +644,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data2_int(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc:
        | EventType::ConnectivityChanged
        | EventType::WebxdcInstanceDeleted { .. }
        | EventType::IncomingMsgBunch { .. }
-        | EventType::SelfavatarChanged
-        | EventType::AccountsBackgroundFetchDone
-        | EventType::ConfigSynced { .. } => 0,
+        | EventType::SelfavatarChanged => 0,
        EventType::ChatModified(_) => 0,
        EventType::MsgsChanged { msg_id, .. }
        | EventType::ReactionsChanged { msg_id, .. }
@@ -718,9 +706,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data2_str(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> *mut
        | EventType::SelfavatarChanged
        | EventType::WebxdcStatusUpdate { .. }
        | EventType::WebxdcInstanceDeleted { .. }
-        | EventType::AccountsBackgroundFetchDone
-        | EventType::ChatEphemeralTimerModified { .. }
-        | EventType::IncomingMsgBunch { .. } => ptr::null_mut(),
+        | EventType::ChatEphemeralTimerModified { .. } => ptr::null_mut(),
        EventType::ConfigureProgress { comment, .. } => {
            if let Some(comment) = comment {
                comment.to_c_string().unwrap_or_default().into_raw()
@@ -732,10 +718,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data2_str(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> *mut
            let data2 = file.to_c_string().unwrap_or_default();
            data2.into_raw()
        }
-        EventType::ConfigSynced { key } => {
-            let data2 = key.to_string().to_c_string().unwrap_or_default();
-            data2.into_raw()
-        }
+        EventType::IncomingMsgBunch { msg_ids } => serde_json::to_string(msg_ids)
+            .unwrap_or_default()
+            .to_c_string()
+            .unwrap_or_default()
+            .into_raw(),
    }
 }

@@ -818,7 +805,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_maybe_network(context: *mut dc_context_t) {
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_preconfigure_keypair(
    context: *mut dc_context_t,
    addr: *const libc::c_char,
-    _public_data: *const libc::c_char,
+    public_data: *const libc::c_char,
    secret_data: *const libc::c_char,
 ) -> i32 {
    if context.is_null() {
@@ -827,8 +814,9 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_preconfigure_keypair(
    }
    let ctx = &*context;
    let addr = to_string_lossy(addr);
+    let public_data = to_string_lossy(public_data);
    let secret_data = to_string_lossy(secret_data);
-    block_on(preconfigure_keypair(ctx, &addr, &secret_data))
+    block_on(preconfigure_keypair(ctx, &addr, &public_data, &secret_data))
        .context("Failed to save keypair")
        .log_err(ctx)
        .is_ok() as libc::c_int
@@ -1435,7 +1423,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_chat_media(
 }

 #[no_mangle]
-#[allow(deprecated)]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_next_media(
    context: *mut dc_context_t,
    msg_id: u32,
@@ -2546,12 +2533,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_set_location(
    }
    let ctx = &*context;

-    block_on(async move {
-        location::set(ctx, latitude, longitude, accuracy)
-            .await
-            .log_err(ctx)
-            .unwrap_or_default()
-    }) as libc::c_int
+    block_on(location::set(ctx, latitude, longitude, accuracy)) as _
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -4126,26 +4108,27 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_contact_is_verified(contact: *mut dc_contact_t) -> l
    let ffi_contact = &*contact;
    let ctx = &*ffi_contact.context;

-    if block_on(ffi_contact.contact.is_verified(ctx))
+    block_on(ffi_contact.contact.is_verified(ctx))
        .context("is_verified failed")
        .log_err(ctx)
-        .unwrap_or_default()
-    {
-        // Return value is essentially a boolean,
-        // but we return 2 for true for backwards compatibility.
-        2
-    } else {
-        0
-    }
+        .unwrap_or_default() as libc::c_int
 }

 #[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_contact_is_bot(contact: *mut dc_contact_t) -> libc::c_int {
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_contact_get_verifier_addr(
+    contact: *mut dc_contact_t,
+) -> *mut libc::c_char {
    if contact.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_contact_is_bot()");
-        return 0;
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_contact_get_verifier_addr()");
+        return "".strdup();
    }
-    (*contact).contact.is_bot() as libc::c_int
+    let ffi_contact = &*contact;
+    let ctx = &*ffi_contact.context;
+    block_on(ffi_contact.contact.get_verifier_addr(ctx))
+        .context("failed to get verifier for contact")
+        .log_err(ctx)
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+        .strdup()
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -4524,14 +4507,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_provider_new_from_email(

    let ctx = &*context;

-    match block_on(provider::get_provider_info_by_addr(
-        ctx,
-        addr.as_str(),
-        true,
-    ))
-    .log_err(ctx)
-    .unwrap_or_default()
-    {
+    match block_on(provider::get_provider_info(ctx, addr.as_str(), true)) {
        Some(provider) => provider,
        None => ptr::null_mut(),
    }
@@ -4558,14 +4534,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_provider_new_from_email_with_dns(

    match socks5_enabled {
        Ok(socks5_enabled) => {
-            match block_on(provider::get_provider_info_by_addr(
+            match block_on(provider::get_provider_info(
                ctx,
                addr.as_str(),
                socks5_enabled,
-            ))
-            .log_err(ctx)
-            .unwrap_or_default()
-            {
+            )) {
                Some(provider) => provider,
                None => ptr::null_mut(),
            }
@@ -4619,6 +4592,96 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_provider_unref(provider: *mut dc_provider_t) {
    // this may change once we start localizing string.
 }

+// dc_http_response_t
+
+pub type dc_http_response_t = net::HttpResponse;
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_http_response(
+    context: *const dc_context_t,
+    url: *const libc::c_char,
+) -> *mut dc_http_response_t {
+    if context.is_null() || url.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_get_http_response()");
+        return ptr::null_mut();
+    }
+
+    let context = &*context;
+    let url = to_string_lossy(url);
+    if let Ok(response) = block_on(read_url_blob(context, &url))
+        .context("read_url_blob")
+        .log_err(context)
+    {
+        Box::into_raw(Box::new(response))
+    } else {
+        ptr::null_mut()
+    }
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_http_response_get_mimetype(
+    response: *const dc_http_response_t,
+) -> *mut libc::c_char {
+    if response.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_http_response_get_mimetype()");
+        return ptr::null_mut();
+    }
+
+    let response = &*response;
+    response.mimetype.strdup()
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_http_response_get_encoding(
+    response: *const dc_http_response_t,
+) -> *mut libc::c_char {
+    if response.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_http_response_get_encoding()");
+        return ptr::null_mut();
+    }
+
+    let response = &*response;
+    response.encoding.strdup()
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_http_response_get_blob(
+    response: *const dc_http_response_t,
+) -> *mut libc::c_char {
+    if response.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_http_response_get_blob()");
+        return ptr::null_mut();
+    }
+
+    let response = &*response;
+    let blob_len = response.blob.len();
+    let ptr = libc::malloc(blob_len);
+    libc::memcpy(ptr, response.blob.as_ptr() as *mut libc::c_void, blob_len);
+    ptr as *mut libc::c_char
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_http_response_get_size(
+    response: *const dc_http_response_t,
+) -> libc::size_t {
+    if response.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_http_response_get_size()");
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    let response = &*response;
+    response.blob.len()
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_http_response_unref(response: *mut dc_http_response_t) {
+    if response.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_http_response_unref()");
+        return;
+    }
+    drop(Box::from_raw(response));
+}
+
 // -- Accounts

 /// Reader-writer lock wrapper for accounts manager to guarantee thread safety when using
@@ -4851,6 +4914,16 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_get_all(accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t) -> *m
    Box::into_raw(Box::new(array))
 }

+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_all_work_done(accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t) -> libc::c_int {
+    if accounts.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_accounts_all_work_done()");
+        return 0;
+    }
+    let accounts = &*accounts;
+    block_on(async move { accounts.read().await.all_work_done().await as libc::c_int })
+}
+
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_start_io(accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t) {
    if accounts.is_null() {
@@ -4858,8 +4931,8 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_start_io(accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t) {
        return;
    }

-    let accounts = &mut *accounts;
-    block_on(async move { accounts.write().await.start_io().await });
+    let accounts = &*accounts;
+    block_on(async move { accounts.read().await.start_io().await });
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -4895,49 +4968,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_maybe_network_lost(accounts: *mut dc_accoun
    block_on(async move { accounts.write().await.maybe_network_lost().await });
 }

-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_background_fetch(
-    accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t,
-    timeout_in_seconds: u64,
-) -> libc::c_int {
-    if accounts.is_null() || timeout_in_seconds <= 2 {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_accounts_background_fetch()");
-        return 0;
-    }
-
-    let accounts = &*accounts;
-    block_on(async move {
-        let accounts = accounts.read().await;
-        accounts
-            .background_fetch(Duration::from_secs(timeout_in_seconds))
-            .await;
-    });
-    1
-}
-
-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_set_push_device_token(
-    accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t,
-    token: *const libc::c_char,
-) {
-    if accounts.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_accounts_set_push_device_token()");
-        return;
-    }
-
-    let accounts = &*accounts;
-    let token = to_string_lossy(token);
-
-    block_on(async move {
-        let mut accounts = accounts.write().await;
-        if let Err(err) = accounts.set_push_device_token(&token).await {
-            accounts.emit_event(EventType::Error(format!(
-                "Failed to set notify token: {err:#}."
-            )));
-        }
-    })
-}
-
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_get_event_emitter(
    accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t,
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "1.137.2"
+version = "1.123.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC API"
 edition = "2021"
 default-run = "deltachat-jsonrpc-server"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
-repository = "https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust"

 [[bin]]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc-server"
@@ -18,24 +17,24 @@ deltachat = { path = ".." }
 num-traits = "0.2"
 schemars = "0.8.13"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-tempfile = "3.10.1"
+tempfile = "3.8.0"
 log = "0.4"
-async-channel = { version = "2.0.0" }
-futures = { version = "0.3.30" }
-serde_json = "1"
+async-channel = { version = "1.8.0" }
+futures = { version = "0.3.28" }
+serde_json = "1.0.105"
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 typescript-type-def = { version = "0.5.8", features = ["json_value"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0" }
+tokio = { version = "1.32.0" }
 sanitize-filename = "0.5"
-walkdir = "2.5.0"
+walkdir = "2.3.3"
 base64 = "0.21"

 # optional dependencies
-axum = { version = "0.7", optional = true, features = ["ws"] }
+axum = { version = "0.6.20", optional = true, features = ["ws"] }
 env_logger = { version = "0.10.0", optional = true }

 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["full", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = ["full", "rt-multi-thread"] }


 [features]
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/README.md
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/README.md
@@ -108,10 +108,10 @@ This will build the `deltachat-jsonrpc-server` binary and then run a test suite

 The test suite includes some tests that need online connectivity and a way to create test email accounts. To run these tests, talk to DeltaChat developers to get a token for the `testrun.org` service, or use a local instance of [`mailadm`](https://github.com/deltachat/docker-mailadm).

-Then, set the `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN` environment variable to your testing email server domain.
+Then, set the `DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL` environment variable to your mailadm token before running the tests.

 ```
-CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=chat.example.org npm run test
+DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL=https://testrun.org/new_email?t=yourtoken npm run test
 ```

 #### Test Coverage
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/mod.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/mod.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ use types::provider_info::ProviderInfo;
 use types::reactions::JSONRPCReactions;
 use types::webxdc::WebxdcMessageInfo;

-use self::types::message::{MessageInfo, MessageLoadResult};
+use self::types::message::MessageLoadResult;
 use self::types::{
    chat::{BasicChat, JSONRPCChatVisibility, MuteDuration},
    location::JsonrpcLocation,
@@ -221,27 +221,13 @@ impl CommandApi {

    /// Starts background tasks for all accounts.
    async fn start_io_for_all_accounts(&self) -> Result<()> {
-        self.accounts.write().await.start_io().await;
+        self.accounts.read().await.start_io().await;
        Ok(())
    }

    /// Stops background tasks for all accounts.
    async fn stop_io_for_all_accounts(&self) -> Result<()> {
-        self.accounts.write().await.stop_io().await;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    /// Performs a background fetch for all accounts in parallel with a timeout.
-    ///
-    /// The `AccountsBackgroundFetchDone` event is emitted at the end even in case of timeout.
-    /// Process all events until you get this one and you can safely return to the background
-    /// without forgetting to create notifications caused by timing race conditions.
-    async fn accounts_background_fetch(&self, timeout_in_seconds: f64) -> Result<()> {
-        self.accounts
-            .write()
-            .await
-            .background_fetch(std::time::Duration::from_secs_f64(timeout_in_seconds))
-            .await;
+        self.accounts.read().await.stop_io().await;
        Ok(())
    }

@@ -325,11 +311,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
        ctx.get_info().await
    }

-    async fn draft_self_report(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<u32> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        Ok(ctx.draft_self_report().await?.to_u32())
-    }
-
    /// Sets the given configuration key.
    async fn set_config(&self, account_id: u32, key: String, value: Option<String>) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
@@ -697,7 +678,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
    ///     the Verified-Group-Invite protocol is offered in the QR code;
    ///     works for protected groups as well as for normal groups.
    ///     If not set, the Setup-Contact protocol is offered in the QR code.
-    ///     See https://securejoin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
+    ///     See https://countermitm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
    ///     for details about both protocols.
    ///
    /// return format: `[code, svg]`
@@ -726,7 +707,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
    ///
    /// Subsequent calls of `secure_join()` will abort previous, unfinished handshakes.
    ///
-    /// See https://securejoin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
+    /// See https://countermitm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html
    /// for details about both protocols.
    ///
    /// **qr**: The text of the scanned QR code. Typically, the same string as given
@@ -834,12 +815,24 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// Create a new broadcast list.
    ///
    /// Broadcast lists are similar to groups on the sending device,
-    /// however, recipients get the messages in a read-only chat
-    /// and will see who the other members are.
+    /// however, recipients get the messages in normal one-to-one chats
+    /// and will not be aware of other members.
    ///
-    /// For historical reasons, this function does not take a name directly,
-    /// instead you have to set the name using dc_set_chat_name()
-    /// after creating the broadcast list.
+    /// Replies to broadcasts go only to the sender
+    /// and not to all broadcast recipients.
+    /// Moreover, replies will not appear in the broadcast list
+    /// but in the one-to-one chat with the person answering.
+    ///
+    /// The name and the image of the broadcast list is set automatically
+    /// and is visible to the sender only.
+    /// Not asking for these data allows more focused creation
+    /// and we bypass the question who will get which data.
+    /// Also, many users will have at most one broadcast list
+    /// so, a generic name and image is sufficient at the first place.
+    ///
+    /// Later on, however, the name can be changed using dc_set_chat_name().
+    /// The image cannot be changed to have a unique, recognizable icon in the chat lists.
+    /// All in all, this is also what other messengers are doing here.
    async fn create_broadcast_list(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<u32> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
        chat::create_broadcast_list(&ctx)
@@ -915,35 +908,19 @@ impl CommandApi {
            .to_u32())
    }

-    /// Add a message to the device-chat.
-    /// Device-messages usually contain update information
-    /// and some hints that are added during the program runs, multi-device etc.
-    /// The device-message may be defined by a label;
-    /// if a message with the same label was added or skipped before,
-    /// the message is not added again, even if the message was deleted in between.
-    /// If needed, the device-chat is created before.
-    ///
-    /// Sends the `MsgsChanged` event on success.
-    ///
-    /// Setting msg to None will prevent the device message with this label from being added in the future.
+    // for now only text messages, because we only used text messages in desktop thusfar
    async fn add_device_message(
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
        label: String,
-        msg: Option<MessageData>,
-    ) -> Result<Option<u32>> {
+        text: String,
+    ) -> Result<u32> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        if let Some(msg) = msg {
-            let mut message = msg.create_message(&ctx).await?;
-            let message_id =
-                deltachat::chat::add_device_msg(&ctx, Some(&label), Some(&mut message)).await?;
-            if !message_id.is_unset() {
-                return Ok(Some(message_id.to_u32()));
-            }
-        } else {
-            deltachat::chat::add_device_msg(&ctx, Some(&label), None).await?;
-        }
-        Ok(None)
+        let mut msg = Message::new(Viewtype::Text);
+        msg.set_text(text);
+        let message_id =
+            deltachat::chat::add_device_msg(&ctx, Some(&label), Some(&mut msg)).await?;
+        Ok(message_id.to_u32())
    }

    ///  Mark all messages in a chat as _noticed_.
@@ -1097,12 +1074,9 @@ impl CommandApi {
            .collect::<Vec<JSONRPCMessageListItem>>())
    }

-    async fn get_message(&self, account_id: u32, msg_id: u32) -> Result<MessageObject> {
+    async fn get_message(&self, account_id: u32, message_id: u32) -> Result<MessageObject> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        let msg_id = MsgId::new(msg_id);
-        MessageObject::from_msg_id(&ctx, msg_id)
-            .await
-            .with_context(|| format!("Failed to load message {msg_id} for account {account_id}"))
+        MessageObject::from_message_id(&ctx, message_id).await
    }

    async fn get_message_html(&self, account_id: u32, message_id: u32) -> Result<Option<String>> {
@@ -1122,7 +1096,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
        let mut messages: HashMap<u32, MessageLoadResult> = HashMap::new();
        for message_id in message_ids {
-            let message_result = MessageObject::from_msg_id(&ctx, MsgId::new(message_id)).await;
+            let message_result = MessageObject::from_message_id(&ctx, message_id).await;
            messages.insert(
                message_id,
                match message_result {
@@ -1164,16 +1138,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
        MsgId::new(message_id).get_info(&ctx).await
    }

-    /// Returns additional information for single message.
-    async fn get_message_info_object(
-        &self,
-        account_id: u32,
-        message_id: u32,
-    ) -> Result<MessageInfo> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        MessageInfo::from_msg_id(&ctx, MsgId::new(message_id)).await
-    }
-
    /// Returns contacts that sent read receipts and the time of reading.
    async fn get_message_read_receipts(
        &self,
@@ -1429,19 +1393,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
    //                   chat
    // ---------------------------------------------

-    /// Returns the [`ChatId`] for the 1:1 chat with `contact_id` if it exists.
-    ///
-    /// If it does not exist, `None` is returned.
-    async fn get_chat_id_by_contact_id(
-        &self,
-        account_id: u32,
-        contact_id: u32,
-    ) -> Result<Option<u32>> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        let chat_id = ChatId::lookup_by_contact(&ctx, ContactId::new(contact_id)).await?;
-        Ok(chat_id.map(|id| id.to_u32()))
-    }
-
    /// Returns all message IDs of the given types in a chat.
    /// Typically used to show a gallery.
    ///
@@ -1479,10 +1430,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
    ///
    /// one combined call for getting chat::get_next_media for both directions
    /// the manual chat::get_next_media in only one direction is not exposed by the jsonrpc yet
-    ///
-    /// Deprecated 2023-10-03, use `get_chat_media` method
-    /// and navigate the returned array instead.
-    #[allow(deprecated)]
    async fn get_neighboring_chat_media(
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
@@ -1805,9 +1752,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
        let mut msg = Message::new(Viewtype::Sticker);
        msg.set_file(&sticker_path, None);

-        // JSON-rpc does not need heuristics to turn [Viewtype::Sticker] into [Viewtype::Image]
-        msg.force_sticker();
-
        let message_id = deltachat::chat::send_msg(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id), &mut msg).await?;
        Ok(message_id.to_u32())
    }
@@ -1846,7 +1790,38 @@ impl CommandApi {

    async fn send_msg(&self, account_id: u32, chat_id: u32, data: MessageData) -> Result<u32> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        let mut message = data.create_message(&ctx).await?;
+        let mut message = Message::new(if let Some(viewtype) = data.viewtype {
+            viewtype.into()
+        } else if data.file.is_some() {
+            Viewtype::File
+        } else {
+            Viewtype::Text
+        });
+        message.set_text(data.text.unwrap_or_default());
+        if data.html.is_some() {
+            message.set_html(data.html);
+        }
+        if data.override_sender_name.is_some() {
+            message.set_override_sender_name(data.override_sender_name);
+        }
+        if let Some(file) = data.file {
+            message.set_file(file, None);
+        }
+        if let Some((latitude, longitude)) = data.location {
+            message.set_location(latitude, longitude);
+        }
+        if let Some(id) = data.quoted_message_id {
+            message
+                .set_quote(
+                    &ctx,
+                    Some(
+                        &Message::load_from_db(&ctx, MsgId::new(id))
+                            .await
+                            .context("message to quote could not be loaded")?,
+                    ),
+                )
+                .await?;
+        }
        let msg_id = chat::send_msg(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id), &mut message)
            .await?
            .to_u32();
@@ -2045,9 +2020,11 @@ impl CommandApi {
                )
                .await?;
        }
-        let msg_id = chat::send_msg(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id), &mut message).await?;
-        let message = MessageObject::from_msg_id(&ctx, msg_id).await?;
-        Ok((msg_id.to_u32(), message))
+        let msg_id = chat::send_msg(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id), &mut message)
+            .await?
+            .to_u32();
+        let message = MessageObject::from_message_id(&ctx, msg_id).await?;
+        Ok((msg_id, message))
    }

    // mimics the old desktop call, will get replaced with something better in the composer rewrite,
@@ -2061,19 +2038,13 @@ impl CommandApi {
        text: Option<String>,
        file: Option<String>,
        quoted_message_id: Option<u32>,
-        view_type: Option<MessageViewtype>,
    ) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        let mut draft = Message::new(view_type.map_or_else(
-            || {
-                if file.is_some() {
-                    Viewtype::File
-                } else {
-                    Viewtype::Text
-                }
-            },
-            |v| v.into(),
-        ));
+        let mut draft = Message::new(if file.is_some() {
+            Viewtype::File
+        } else {
+            Viewtype::Text
+        });
        draft.set_text(text.unwrap_or_default());
        if let Some(file) = file {
            draft.set_file(file, None);
@@ -2093,23 +2064,6 @@ impl CommandApi {

        ChatId::new(chat_id).set_draft(&ctx, Some(&mut draft)).await
    }
-
-    // send the chat's current set draft
-    async fn misc_send_draft(&self, account_id: u32, chat_id: u32) -> Result<u32> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        if let Some(draft) = ChatId::new(chat_id).get_draft(&ctx).await? {
-            let mut draft = draft;
-            let msg_id = chat::send_msg(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id), &mut draft)
-                .await?
-                .to_u32();
-            Ok(msg_id)
-        } else {
-            Err(anyhow!(
-                "chat with id {} doesn't have draft message",
-                chat_id
-            ))
-        }
-    }
 }

 // Helper functions (to prevent code duplication)
@@ -2126,6 +2080,13 @@ async fn set_config(
            value,
        )
        .await?;
+
+        match key {
+            "sentbox_watch" | "mvbox_move" | "only_fetch_mvbox" => {
+                ctx.restart_io_if_running().await;
+            }
+            _ => {}
+        }
    }
    Ok(())
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat.rs
@@ -18,17 +18,6 @@ use super::contact::ContactObject;
 pub struct FullChat {
    id: u32,
    name: String,
-
-    /// True if the chat is protected.
-    ///
-    /// UI should display a green checkmark
-    /// in the chat title,
-    /// in the chat profile title and
-    /// in the chatlist item
-    /// if chat protection is enabled.
-    /// UI should also display a green checkmark
-    /// in the contact profile
-    /// if 1:1 chat with this contact exists and is protected.
    is_protected: bool,
    profile_image: Option<String>, //BLOBS ?
    archived: bool,
@@ -42,7 +31,6 @@ pub struct FullChat {
    fresh_message_counter: usize,
    // is_group - please check over chat.type in frontend instead
    is_contact_request: bool,
-    is_protection_broken: bool,
    is_device_chat: bool,
    self_in_group: bool,
    is_muted: bool,
@@ -85,7 +73,7 @@ impl FullChat {
        let can_send = chat.can_send(context).await?;

        let was_seen_recently = if chat.get_type() == Chattype::Single {
-            match contact_ids.first() {
+            match contact_ids.get(0) {
                Some(contact) => Contact::get_by_id(context, *contact)
                    .await
                    .context("failed to load contact for was_seen_recently")?
@@ -112,7 +100,6 @@ impl FullChat {
            color,
            fresh_message_counter,
            is_contact_request: chat.is_contact_request(),
-            is_protection_broken: chat.is_protection_broken(),
            is_device_chat: chat.is_device_talk(),
            self_in_group: contact_ids.contains(&ContactId::SELF),
            is_muted: chat.is_muted(),
@@ -139,17 +126,6 @@ impl FullChat {
 pub struct BasicChat {
    id: u32,
    name: String,
-
-    /// True if the chat is protected.
-    ///
-    /// UI should display a green checkmark
-    /// in the chat title,
-    /// in the chat profile title and
-    /// in the chatlist item
-    /// if chat protection is enabled.
-    /// UI should also display a green checkmark
-    /// in the contact profile
-    /// if 1:1 chat with this contact exists and is protected.
    is_protected: bool,
    profile_image: Option<String>, //BLOBS ?
    archived: bool,
@@ -158,7 +134,6 @@ pub struct BasicChat {
    is_self_talk: bool,
    color: String,
    is_contact_request: bool,
-    is_protection_broken: bool,
    is_device_chat: bool,
    is_muted: bool,
 }
@@ -185,7 +160,6 @@ impl BasicChat {
            is_self_talk: chat.is_self_talk(),
            color,
            is_contact_request: chat.is_contact_request(),
-            is_protection_broken: chat.is_protection_broken(),
            is_device_chat: chat.is_device_talk(),
            is_muted: chat.is_muted(),
        })
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat_list.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat_list.rs
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn get_chat_list_item_by_id(
    let self_in_group = chat_contacts.contains(&ContactId::SELF);

    let (dm_chat_contact, was_seen_recently) = if chat.get_type() == Chattype::Single {
-        let contact = chat_contacts.first();
+        let contact = chat_contacts.get(0);
        let was_seen_recently = match contact {
            Some(contact) => Contact::get_by_id(ctx, *contact)
                .await
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/contact.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/contact.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
+use deltachat::contact::VerifiedStatus;
 use deltachat::context::Context;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;
@@ -18,36 +19,14 @@ pub struct ContactObject {
    profile_image: Option<String>, // BLOBS
    name_and_addr: String,
    is_blocked: bool,
-
-    /// True if the contact can be added to verified groups.
-    ///
-    /// If this is true
-    /// UI should display green checkmark after the contact name
-    /// in contact list items,
-    /// in chat member list items
-    /// and in profiles if no chat with the contact exist.
    is_verified: bool,
-
-    /// True if the contact profile title should have a green checkmark.
-    ///
-    /// This indicates whether 1:1 chat has a green checkmark
-    /// or will have a green checkmark if created.
-    is_profile_verified: bool,
-
-    /// The ID of the contact that verified this contact.
-    ///
-    /// If this is present,
-    /// display a green checkmark and "Introduced by ..."
-    /// string followed by the verifier contact name and address
-    /// in the contact profile.
+    /// the address that verified this contact
+    verifier_addr: Option<String>,
+    /// the id of the contact that verified this contact
    verifier_id: Option<u32>,
-
    /// the contact's last seen timestamp
    last_seen: i64,
    was_seen_recently: bool,
-
-    /// If the contact is a bot.
-    is_bot: bool,
 }

 impl ContactObject {
@@ -59,13 +38,19 @@ impl ContactObject {
            Some(path_buf) => path_buf.to_str().map(|s| s.to_owned()),
            None => None,
        };
-        let is_verified = contact.is_verified(context).await?;
-        let is_profile_verified = contact.is_profile_verified(context).await?;
+        let is_verified = contact.is_verified(context).await? == VerifiedStatus::BidirectVerified;

-        let verifier_id = contact
-            .get_verifier_id(context)
-            .await?
-            .map(|contact_id| contact_id.to_u32());
+        let (verifier_addr, verifier_id) = if is_verified {
+            (
+                contact.get_verifier_addr(context).await?,
+                contact
+                    .get_verifier_id(context)
+                    .await?
+                    .map(|contact_id| contact_id.to_u32()),
+            )
+        } else {
+            (None, None)
+        };

        Ok(ContactObject {
            address: contact.get_addr().to_owned(),
@@ -79,11 +64,10 @@ impl ContactObject {
            name_and_addr: contact.get_name_n_addr(),
            is_blocked: contact.is_blocked(),
            is_verified,
-            is_profile_verified,
+            verifier_addr,
            verifier_id,
            last_seen: contact.last_seen(),
            was_seen_recently: contact.was_seen_recently(),
-            is_bot: contact.is_bot(),
        })
    }
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/events.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/events.rs
@@ -28,37 +28,55 @@ pub enum EventType {
    ///
    /// This event should *not* be reported to the end-user using a popup or something like
    /// that.
-    Info { msg: String },
+    Info {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted when SMTP connection is established and login was successful.
-    SmtpConnected { msg: String },
+    SmtpConnected {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted when IMAP connection is established and login was successful.
-    ImapConnected { msg: String },
+    ImapConnected {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted when a message was successfully sent to the SMTP server.
-    SmtpMessageSent { msg: String },
+    SmtpMessageSent {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted when an IMAP message has been marked as deleted
-    ImapMessageDeleted { msg: String },
+    ImapMessageDeleted {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted when an IMAP message has been moved
-    ImapMessageMoved { msg: String },
+    ImapMessageMoved {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted before going into IDLE on the Inbox folder.
    ImapInboxIdle,

    /// Emitted when an new file in the $BLOBDIR was created
-    NewBlobFile { file: String },
+    NewBlobFile {
+        file: String,
+    },

    /// Emitted when an file in the $BLOBDIR was deleted
-    DeletedBlobFile { file: String },
+    DeletedBlobFile {
+        file: String,
+    },

    /// The library-user should write a warning string to the log.
    ///
    /// This event should *not* be reported to the end-user using a popup or something like
    /// that.
-    Warning { msg: String },
+    Warning {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// The library-user should report an error to the end-user.
    ///
@@ -70,14 +88,18 @@ pub enum EventType {
    /// it might be better to delay showing these events until the function has really
    /// failed (returned false). It should be sufficient to report only the *last* error
    /// in a messasge box then.
-    Error { msg: String },
+    Error {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// An action cannot be performed because the user is not in the group.
    /// Reported eg. after a call to
    /// setChatName(), setChatProfileImage(),
    /// addContactToChat(), removeContactFromChat(),
    /// and messages sending functions.
-    ErrorSelfNotInGroup { msg: String },
+    ErrorSelfNotInGroup {
+        msg: String,
+    },

    /// Messages or chats changed.  One or more messages or chats changed for various
    /// reasons in the database:
@@ -88,7 +110,10 @@ pub enum EventType {
    /// `chatId` is set if only a single chat is affected by the changes, otherwise 0.
    /// `msgId` is set if only a single message is affected by the changes, otherwise 0.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    MsgsChanged { chat_id: u32, msg_id: u32 },
+    MsgsChanged {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },

    /// Reactions for the message changed.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
@@ -101,39 +126,60 @@ pub enum EventType {
    /// There is a fresh message. Typically, the user will show an notification
    /// when receiving this message.
    ///
-    /// There is no extra #DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED event sent together with this event.
+    /// There is no extra #DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED event send together with this event.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    IncomingMsg { chat_id: u32, msg_id: u32 },
+    IncomingMsg {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },

-    /// Downloading a bunch of messages just finished. This is an
+    /// Downloading a bunch of messages just finished. This is an experimental
    /// event to allow the UI to only show one notification per message bunch,
    /// instead of cluttering the user with many notifications.
+    ///
+    /// msg_ids contains the message ids.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    IncomingMsgBunch,
+    IncomingMsgBunch {
+        msg_ids: Vec<u32>,
+    },

    /// Messages were seen or noticed.
    /// chat id is always set.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    MsgsNoticed { chat_id: u32 },
+    MsgsNoticed {
+        chat_id: u32,
+    },

    /// A single message is sent successfully. State changed from  DC_STATE_OUT_PENDING to
    /// DC_STATE_OUT_DELIVERED, see `Message.state`.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    MsgDelivered { chat_id: u32, msg_id: u32 },
+    MsgDelivered {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },

    /// A single message could not be sent. State changed from DC_STATE_OUT_PENDING or DC_STATE_OUT_DELIVERED to
    /// DC_STATE_OUT_FAILED, see `Message.state`.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    MsgFailed { chat_id: u32, msg_id: u32 },
+    MsgFailed {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },

    /// A single message is read by the receiver. State changed from DC_STATE_OUT_DELIVERED to
    /// DC_STATE_OUT_MDN_RCVD, see `Message.state`.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    MsgRead { chat_id: u32, msg_id: u32 },
+    MsgRead {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },

    /// A single message is deleted.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    MsgDeleted { chat_id: u32, msg_id: u32 },
+    MsgDeleted {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },

    /// Chat changed.  The name or the image of a chat group was changed or members were added or removed.
    /// Or the verify state of a chat has changed.
@@ -143,17 +189,24 @@ pub enum EventType {
    /// This event does not include ephemeral timer modification, which
    /// is a separate event.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    ChatModified { chat_id: u32 },
+    ChatModified {
+        chat_id: u32,
+    },

    /// Chat ephemeral timer changed.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    ChatEphemeralTimerModified { chat_id: u32, timer: u32 },
+    ChatEphemeralTimerModified {
+        chat_id: u32,
+        timer: u32,
+    },

    /// Contact(s) created, renamed, blocked or deleted.
    ///
    /// @param data1 (int) If set, this is the contact_id of an added contact that should be selected.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    ContactsChanged { contact_id: Option<u32> },
+    ContactsChanged {
+        contact_id: Option<u32>,
+    },

    /// Location of one or more contact has changed.
    ///
@@ -161,7 +214,9 @@ pub enum EventType {
    ///     If the locations of several contacts have been changed,
    ///     this parameter is set to `None`.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    LocationChanged { contact_id: Option<u32> },
+    LocationChanged {
+        contact_id: Option<u32>,
+    },

    /// Inform about the configuration progress started by configure().
    ConfigureProgress {
@@ -179,7 +234,9 @@ pub enum EventType {
    /// @param data1 (usize) 0=error, 1-999=progress in permille, 1000=success and done
    /// @param data2 0
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    ImexProgress { progress: usize },
+    ImexProgress {
+        progress: usize,
+    },

    /// A file has been exported. A file has been written by imex().
    /// This event may be sent multiple times by a single call to imex().
@@ -189,7 +246,9 @@ pub enum EventType {
    ///
    /// @param data2 0
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    ImexFileWritten { path: String },
+    ImexFileWritten {
+        path: String,
+    },

    /// Progress information of a secure-join handshake from the view of the inviter
    /// (Alice, the person who shows the QR code).
@@ -204,7 +263,10 @@ pub enum EventType {
    ///     800=vg-member-added-received received, shown as "bob@addr securely joined GROUP", only sent for the verified-group-protocol.
    ///     1000=Protocol finished for this contact.
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    SecurejoinInviterProgress { contact_id: u32, progress: usize },
+    SecurejoinInviterProgress {
+        contact_id: u32,
+        progress: usize,
+    },

    /// Progress information of a secure-join handshake from the view of the joiner
    /// (Bob, the person who scans the QR code).
@@ -215,7 +277,10 @@ pub enum EventType {
    ///     400=vg-/vc-request-with-auth sent, typically shown as "alice@addr verified, introducing myself."
    ///     (Bob has verified alice and waits until Alice does the same for him)
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    SecurejoinJoinerProgress { contact_id: u32, progress: usize },
+    SecurejoinJoinerProgress {
+        contact_id: u32,
+        progress: usize,
+    },

    /// The connectivity to the server changed.
    /// This means that you should refresh the connectivity view
@@ -223,17 +288,8 @@ pub enum EventType {
    /// getConnectivityHtml() for details.
    ConnectivityChanged,

-    /// Deprecated by `ConfigSynced`.
    SelfavatarChanged,

-    /// A multi-device synced config value changed. Maybe the app needs to refresh smth. For
-    /// uniformity this is emitted on the source device too. The value isn't here, otherwise it
-    /// would be logged which might not be good for privacy.
-    ConfigSynced {
-        /// Configuration key.
-        key: String,
-    },
-
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
    WebxdcStatusUpdate {
        msg_id: u32,
@@ -242,14 +298,9 @@ pub enum EventType {

    /// Inform that a message containing a webxdc instance has been deleted
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-    WebxdcInstanceDeleted { msg_id: u32 },
-
-    /// Tells that the Background fetch was completed (or timed out).
-    /// This event acts as a marker, when you reach this event you can be sure
-    /// that all events emitted during the background fetch were processed.
-    ///
-    /// This event is only emitted by the account manager
-    AccountsBackgroundFetchDone,
+    WebxdcInstanceDeleted {
+        msg_id: u32,
+    },
 }

 impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
@@ -285,7 +336,9 @@ impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
            },
-            CoreEventType::IncomingMsgBunch => IncomingMsgBunch,
+            CoreEventType::IncomingMsgBunch { msg_ids } => IncomingMsgBunch {
+                msg_ids: msg_ids.into_iter().map(|id| id.to_u32()).collect(),
+            },
            CoreEventType::MsgsNoticed(chat_id) => MsgsNoticed {
                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
            },
@@ -343,9 +396,6 @@ impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
            },
            CoreEventType::ConnectivityChanged => ConnectivityChanged,
            CoreEventType::SelfavatarChanged => SelfavatarChanged,
-            CoreEventType::ConfigSynced { key } => ConfigSynced {
-                key: key.to_string(),
-            },
            CoreEventType::WebxdcStatusUpdate {
                msg_id,
                status_update_serial,
@@ -356,7 +406,6 @@ impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
            CoreEventType::WebxdcInstanceDeleted { msg_id } => WebxdcInstanceDeleted {
                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
            },
-            CoreEventType::AccountsBackgroundFetchDone => AccountsBackgroundFetchDone,
        }
    }
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/message.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/message.rs
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ enum MessageQuote {
 }

 impl MessageObject {
+    pub async fn from_message_id(context: &Context, message_id: u32) -> Result<Self> {
+        let msg_id = MsgId::new(message_id);
+        Self::from_msg_id(context, msg_id).await
+    }
+
    pub async fn from_msg_id(context: &Context, msg_id: MsgId) -> Result<Self> {
        let message = Message::load_from_db(context, msg_id).await?;

@@ -340,7 +345,6 @@ pub enum SystemMessageType {
    SecurejoinMessage,
    LocationStreamingEnabled,
    LocationOnly,
-    InvalidUnencryptedMail,

    /// Chat ephemeral message timer is changed.
    EphemeralTimerChanged,
@@ -381,7 +385,6 @@ impl From<deltachat::mimeparser::SystemMessage> for SystemMessageType {
            SystemMessage::MultiDeviceSync => SystemMessageType::MultiDeviceSync,
            SystemMessage::WebxdcStatusUpdate => SystemMessageType::WebxdcStatusUpdate,
            SystemMessage::WebxdcInfoMessage => SystemMessageType::WebxdcInfoMessage,
-            SystemMessage::InvalidUnencryptedMail => SystemMessageType::InvalidUnencryptedMail,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -543,115 +546,9 @@ pub struct MessageData {
    pub quoted_message_id: Option<u32>,
 }

-impl MessageData {
-    pub(crate) async fn create_message(self, context: &Context) -> Result<Message> {
-        let mut message = Message::new(if let Some(viewtype) = self.viewtype {
-            viewtype.into()
-        } else if self.file.is_some() {
-            Viewtype::File
-        } else {
-            Viewtype::Text
-        });
-        message.set_text(self.text.unwrap_or_default());
-        if self.html.is_some() {
-            message.set_html(self.html);
-        }
-        if self.override_sender_name.is_some() {
-            message.set_override_sender_name(self.override_sender_name);
-        }
-        if let Some(file) = self.file {
-            message.set_file(file, None);
-        }
-        if let Some((latitude, longitude)) = self.location {
-            message.set_location(latitude, longitude);
-        }
-        if let Some(id) = self.quoted_message_id {
-            message
-                .set_quote(
-                    context,
-                    Some(
-                        &Message::load_from_db(context, MsgId::new(id))
-                            .await
-                            .context("message to quote could not be loaded")?,
-                    ),
-                )
-                .await?;
-        }
-        Ok(message)
-    }
-}
-
 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct MessageReadReceipt {
    pub contact_id: u32,
    pub timestamp: i64,
 }
-
-#[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
-#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
-pub struct MessageInfo {
-    rawtext: String,
-    ephemeral_timer: EphemeralTimer,
-    /// When message is ephemeral this contains the timestamp of the message expiry
-    ephemeral_timestamp: Option<i64>,
-    error: Option<String>,
-    rfc724_mid: String,
-    server_urls: Vec<String>,
-    hop_info: Option<String>,
-}
-
-impl MessageInfo {
-    pub async fn from_msg_id(context: &Context, msg_id: MsgId) -> Result<Self> {
-        let message = Message::load_from_db(context, msg_id).await?;
-        let rawtext = msg_id.rawtext(context).await?;
-        let ephemeral_timer = message.get_ephemeral_timer().into();
-        let ephemeral_timestamp = match message.get_ephemeral_timer() {
-            deltachat::ephemeral::Timer::Disabled => None,
-            deltachat::ephemeral::Timer::Enabled { .. } => Some(message.get_ephemeral_timestamp()),
-        };
-
-        let server_urls =
-            MsgId::get_info_server_urls(context, message.rfc724_mid().to_owned()).await?;
-
-        let hop_info = msg_id.hop_info(context).await?;
-
-        Ok(Self {
-            rawtext,
-            ephemeral_timer,
-            ephemeral_timestamp,
-            error: message.error(),
-            rfc724_mid: message.rfc724_mid().to_owned(),
-            server_urls,
-            hop_info,
-        })
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(
-    Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Copy, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema,
-)]
-#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase", tag = "variant")]
-pub enum EphemeralTimer {
-    /// Timer is disabled.
-    Disabled,
-
-    /// Timer is enabled.
-    Enabled {
-        /// Timer duration in seconds.
-        ///
-        /// The value cannot be 0.
-        duration: u32,
-    },
-}
-
-impl From<deltachat::ephemeral::Timer> for EphemeralTimer {
-    fn from(value: deltachat::ephemeral::Timer) -> Self {
-        match value {
-            deltachat::ephemeral::Timer::Disabled => EphemeralTimer::Disabled,
-            deltachat::ephemeral::Timer::Enabled { duration } => {
-                EphemeralTimer::Enabled { duration }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/provider_info.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/provider_info.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;
 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct ProviderInfo {
-    /// Unique ID, corresponding to provider database filename.
-    pub id: String,
    pub before_login_hint: String,
    pub overview_page: String,
    pub status: u32, // in reality this is an enum, but for simplicity and because it gets converted into a number anyway, we use an u32 here.
@@ -16,7 +14,6 @@ pub struct ProviderInfo {
 impl ProviderInfo {
    pub fn from_dc_type(provider: Option<&Provider>) -> Option<Self> {
        provider.map(|p| ProviderInfo {
-            id: p.id.to_owned(),
            before_login_hint: p.before_login_hint.to_owned(),
            overview_page: p.overview_page.to_owned(),
            status: p.status.to_u32().unwrap(),
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ mod tests {
        let accounts = Accounts::new(tmp_dir, writable).await?;
        let api = CommandApi::new(accounts);

-        let (sender, receiver) = unbounded::<String>();
+        let (sender, mut receiver) = unbounded::<String>();

        let (client, mut rx) = RpcClient::new();
        let session = RpcSession::new(client, api);
@@ -36,17 +36,17 @@ mod tests {
            let request = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"add_account","params":[],"id":1}"#;
            let response = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":1}"#;
            session.handle_incoming(request).await;
-            let result = receiver.recv().await?;
+            let result = receiver.next().await;
            println!("{result:?}");
-            assert_eq!(result, response.to_owned());
+            assert_eq!(result, Some(response.to_owned()));
        }
        {
            let request = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"get_all_account_ids","params":[],"id":2}"#;
            let response = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":[1]}"#;
            session.handle_incoming(request).await;
-            let result = receiver.recv().await?;
+            let result = receiver.next().await;
            println!("{result:?}");
-            assert_eq!(result, response.to_owned());
+            assert_eq!(result, Some(response.to_owned()));
        }

        Ok(())
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ mod tests {
        let accounts = Accounts::new(tmp_dir, writable).await?;
        let api = CommandApi::new(accounts);

-        let (sender, receiver) = unbounded::<String>();
+        let (sender, mut receiver) = unbounded::<String>();

        let (client, mut rx) = RpcClient::new();
        let session = RpcSession::new(client, api);
@@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ mod tests {
            let request = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"add_account","params":[],"id":1}"#;
            let response = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":1}"#;
            session.handle_incoming(request).await;
-            let result = receiver.recv().await?;
-            assert_eq!(result, response.to_owned());
+            let result = receiver.next().await;
+            assert_eq!(result, Some(response.to_owned()));
        }
        {
            let request = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"batch_set_config","id":2,"params":[1,{"addr":"","mail_user":"","mail_pw":"","mail_server":"","mail_port":"","mail_security":"","imap_certificate_checks":"","send_user":"","send_pw":"","send_server":"","send_port":"","send_security":"","smtp_certificate_checks":"","socks5_enabled":"0","socks5_host":"","socks5_port":"","socks5_user":"","socks5_password":""}]}"#;
            let response = r#"{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":null}"#;
            session.handle_incoming(request).await;
-            let result = receiver.recv().await?;
-            assert_eq!(result, response.to_owned());
+            let result = receiver.next().await;
+            assert_eq!(result, Some(response.to_owned()));
        }

        Ok(())
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/webserver.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/webserver.rs
@@ -28,13 +28,15 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
        .layer(Extension(state.clone()));

    tokio::spawn(async move {
-        state.accounts.write().await.start_io().await;
+        state.accounts.read().await.start_io().await;
    });

    let addr = SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], port));
    log::info!("JSON-RPC WebSocket server listening on {}", addr);
-    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await.unwrap();
-    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();
+    axum::Server::bind(&addr)
+        .serve(app.into_make_service())
+        .await
+        .unwrap();

    Ok(())
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
    "@types/chai": "^4.2.21",
    "@types/chai-as-promised": "^7.1.5",
    "@types/mocha": "^9.0.0",
+    "@types/node-fetch": "^2.5.7",
    "@types/ws": "^7.2.4",
    "c8": "^7.10.0",
    "chai": "^4.3.4",
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
    "esbuild": "^0.17.9",
    "http-server": "^14.1.1",
    "mocha": "^9.1.1",
+    "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
    "npm-run-all": "^4.1.5",
    "prettier": "^2.6.2",
    "typedoc": "^0.23.2",
@@ -53,5 +55,5 @@
  },
  "type": "module",
  "types": "dist/deltachat.d.ts",
-  "version": "1.137.2"
+  "version": "1.123.0"
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/basic.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/basic.ts
@@ -79,9 +79,6 @@ describe("basic tests", () => {
      accountId = await dc.rpc.addAccount();
    });
    it("should block and unblock contact", async function () {
-      // Cannot send sync messages to self as we do not have a self address.
-      await dc.rpc.setConfig(accountId, "sync_msgs", "0");
-
      const contactId = await dc.rpc.createContact(
        accountId,
        "example@delta.chat",
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ describe("online tests", function () {

  before(async function () {
    this.timeout(60000);
-    if (!process.env.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN) {
+    if (!process.env.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL) {
      if (process.env.COVERAGE && !process.env.COVERAGE_OFFLINE) {
        console.error(
-          "CAN NOT RUN COVERAGE correctly: Missing CHATMAIL_DOMAIN environment variable!\n\n",
+          "CAN NOT RUN COVERAGE correctly: Missing DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL environment variable!\n\n",
          "You can set COVERAGE_OFFLINE=1 to circumvent this check and skip the online tests, but those coverage results will be wrong, because some functions can only be tested in the online test"
        );
        process.exit(1);
      }
      console.log(
-        "Missing CHATMAIL_DOMAIN environment variable!, skip integration tests"
+        "Missing DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL environment variable!, skip integration tests"
      );
      this.skip();
    }
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ describe("online tests", function () {
      if (kind !== "Info") console.log(contextId, kind);
    });

-    account1 = createTempUser(process.env.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN);
+    account1 = await createTempUser(process.env.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL);
    if (!account1 || !account1.email || !account1.password) {
      console.log(
        "We didn't got back an account from the api, skip integration tests"
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ describe("online tests", function () {
      this.skip();
    }

-    account2 = createTempUser(process.env.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN);
+    account2 = await createTempUser(process.env.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL);
    if (!account2 || !account2.email || !account2.password) {
      console.log(
        "We didn't got back an account2 from the api, skip integration tests"
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ describe("online tests", function () {
      waitForEvent(dc, "IncomingMsg", accountId1),
    ]);
    dc.rpc.miscSendTextMessage(accountId2, chatId, "super secret message");
-    // Check if answer arrives at A and if it is encrypted
+    // Check if answer arives at A and if it is encrypted
    await eventPromise2;

    const messageId = (
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/test_base.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/test_base.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { tmpdir } from "os";
 import { join, resolve } from "path";
 import { mkdtemp, rm } from "fs/promises";
 import { spawn, exec } from "child_process";
+import fetch from "node-fetch";
 import { Readable, Writable } from "node:stream";

 export type RpcServerHandle = {
@@ -56,14 +57,15 @@ export async function startServer(): Promise<RpcServerHandle> {
  };
 }

-export function createTempUser(chatmailDomain: String) {
-  const charset = "2345789acdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz";
-  let user = "ci-";
-  for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
-    user += charset[Math.floor(Math.random() * charset.length)];
-  }
-  const email = user + "@" + chatmailDomain;
-  return { email: email, password: user + "$" + user };
+export async function createTempUser(url: string) {
+  const response = await fetch(url, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: {
+      "cache-control": "no-cache",
+    },
+  });
+  if (!response.ok) throw new Error("Received invalid response");
+  return response.json();
 }

 function getTargetDir(): Promise<string> {
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "1.137.2"
+version = "1.123.0"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 edition = "2021"
-repository = "https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust"

 [dependencies]
 ansi_term = "0.12.1"
 anyhow = "1"
 deltachat = { path = "..", features = ["internals"]}
 dirs = "5"
-log = "0.4.21"
+log = "0.4.20"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
-rusqlite = "0.31"
-rustyline = "14"
+rusqlite = "0.29"
+rustyline = "12"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }

 [features]
--- a/deltachat-repl/src/cmdline.rs
+++ b/deltachat-repl/src/cmdline.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ extern crate dirs;

 use std::path::Path;
 use std::str::FromStr;
-use std::time::Duration;
+use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};

 use anyhow::{bail, ensure, Result};
 use deltachat::chat::{
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ use tokio::fs;
 /// e.g. bitmask 7 triggers actions defined with bits 1, 2 and 4.
 async fn reset_tables(context: &Context, bits: i32) {
    println!("Resetting tables ({bits})...");
+    if 0 != bits & 1 {
+        context
+            .sql()
+            .execute("DELETE FROM jobs;", ())
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        println!("(1) Jobs reset.");
+    }
    if 0 != bits & 2 {
        context
            .sql()
@@ -131,7 +139,11 @@ async fn poke_spec(context: &Context, spec: Option<&str>) -> bool {
        /* import a directory */
        let dir_name = std::path::Path::new(&real_spec);
        let dir = fs::read_dir(dir_name).await;
-        if let Ok(mut dir) = dir {
+        if dir.is_err() {
+            error!(context, "Import: Cannot open directory \"{}\".", &real_spec,);
+            return false;
+        } else {
+            let mut dir = dir.unwrap();
            while let Ok(Some(entry)) = dir.next_entry().await {
                let name_f = entry.file_name();
                let name = name_f.to_string_lossy();
@@ -143,9 +155,6 @@ async fn poke_spec(context: &Context, spec: Option<&str>) -> bool {
                    }
                }
            }
-        } else {
-            error!(context, "Import: Cannot open directory \"{}\".", &real_spec);
-            return false;
        }
    }
    println!("Import: {} items read from \"{}\".", read_cnt, &real_spec);
@@ -276,8 +285,13 @@ async fn log_contactlist(context: &Context, contacts: &[ContactId]) -> Result<()
        let contact = Contact::get_by_id(context, *contact_id).await?;
        let name = contact.get_display_name();
        let addr = contact.get_addr();
-        let verified_str = if contact.is_verified(context).await? {
-            " √"
+        let verified_state = contact.is_verified(context).await?;
+        let verified_str = if VerifiedStatus::Unverified != verified_state {
+            if verified_state == VerifiedStatus::BidirectVerified {
+                " √√"
+            } else {
+                " √"
+            }
        } else {
            ""
        };
@@ -339,8 +353,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                 export-keys\n\
                 import-keys\n\
                 export-setup\n\
-                 dump <filename>\n\n
-                 read <filename>\n\n
                 poke [<eml-file>|<folder>|<addr> <key-file>]\n\
                 reset <flags>\n\
                 stop\n\
@@ -516,14 +528,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                &setup_code,
            );
        }
-        "dump" => {
-            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <filename> missing.");
-            serialize_database(&context, arg1).await?;
-        }
-        "read" => {
-            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <filename> missing.");
-            deserialize_database(&context, arg1).await?;
-        }
        "poke" => {
            ensure!(poke_spec(&context, Some(arg1)).await, "Poke failed");
        }
@@ -899,7 +903,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
            let latitude = arg1.parse()?;
            let longitude = arg2.parse()?;

-            let continue_streaming = location::set(&context, latitude, longitude, 0.).await?;
+            let continue_streaming = location::set(&context, latitude, longitude, 0.).await;
            if continue_streaming {
                println!("Success, streaming should be continued.");
            } else {
--- a/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ extern crate deltachat;

 use std::borrow::Cow::{self, Borrowed, Owned};
 use std::io::{self, Write};
+use std::path::Path;
 use std::process::Command;

 use ansi_term::Color;
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@ use deltachat::context::*;
 use deltachat::oauth2::*;
 use deltachat::qr_code_generator::get_securejoin_qr_svg;
 use deltachat::securejoin::*;
-use deltachat::EventType;
+use deltachat::stock_str::StockStrings;
+use deltachat::{EventType, Events};
 use log::{error, info, warn};
 use rustyline::completion::{Completer, FilenameCompleter, Pair};
 use rustyline::error::ReadlineError;
@@ -297,8 +299,8 @@ impl Highlighter for DcHelper {
        self.highlighter.highlight(line, pos)
    }

-    fn highlight_char(&self, line: &str, pos: usize, forced: bool) -> bool {
-        self.highlighter.highlight_char(line, pos, forced)
+    fn highlight_char(&self, line: &str, pos: usize) -> bool {
+        self.highlighter.highlight_char(line, pos)
    }
 }

@@ -310,10 +312,7 @@ async fn start(args: Vec<String>) -> Result<(), Error> {
        println!("Error: Bad arguments, expected [db-name].");
        bail!("No db-name specified");
    }
-    let context = ContextBuilder::new(args[1].clone().into())
-        .with_id(1)
-        .open()
-        .await?;
+    let context = Context::new(Path::new(&args[1]), 0, Events::new(), StockStrings::new()).await?;

    let events = context.get_event_emitter();
    tokio::task::spawn(async move {
@@ -482,10 +481,7 @@ async fn handle_cmd(

 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
-    pretty_env_logger::formatted_timed_builder()
-        .parse_default_env()
-        .filter_module("deltachat_repl", log::LevelFilter::Info)
-        .init();
+    let _ = pretty_env_logger::try_init();

    let args = std::env::args().collect();
    start(args).await?;
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/README.md
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ $ pip install .
 ## Testing

 1. Build `deltachat-rpc-server` with `cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server`.
-2. Run `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=nine.testrun.org PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" tox`.
+2. Run `PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" tox`.

 Additional arguments to `tox` are passed to pytest, e.g. `tox -- -s` does not capture test output.

@@ -37,14 +37,19 @@ $ tox --devenv env
 $ . env/bin/activate
 ```

+It is recommended to use IPython, because it supports using `await` directly
+from the REPL.
+
 ```
-$ python
->>> from deltachat_rpc_client import *
->>> rpc = Rpc()
->>> rpc.start()
->>> dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
->>> system_info = dc.get_system_info()
->>> system_info["level"]
-'awesome'
->>> rpc.close()
+$ pip install ipython
+$ PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" ipython
+...
+In [1]: from deltachat_rpc_client import *
+In [2]: rpc = Rpc()
+In [3]: await rpc.start()
+In [4]: dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
+In [5]: system_info = await dc.get_system_info()
+In [6]: system_info["level"]
+Out[6]: 'awesome'
+In [7]: await rpc.close()
 ```
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot.py
@@ -4,21 +4,23 @@
 it will echo back any text send to it, it also will print to console all Delta Chat core events.
 Pass --help to the CLI to see available options.
 """
+import asyncio
+
 from deltachat_rpc_client import events, run_bot_cli

 hooks = events.HookCollection()


@hooks.on(events.RawEvent)
-def log_event(event):
+async def log_event(event):
    print(event)


@hooks.on(events.NewMessage)
-def echo(event):
+async def echo(event):
    snapshot = event.message_snapshot
-    snapshot.chat.send_text(snapshot.text)
+    await snapshot.chat.send_text(snapshot.text)


 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    run_bot_cli(hooks)
+    asyncio.run(run_bot_cli(hooks))
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot_advanced.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot_advanced.py
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@

 it will echo back any message that has non-empty text and also supports the /help command.
 """
+import asyncio
 import logging
 import sys
-from threading import Thread

 from deltachat_rpc_client import Bot, DeltaChat, EventType, Rpc, events

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ hooks = events.HookCollection()


@hooks.on(events.RawEvent)
-def log_event(event):
+async def log_event(event):
    if event.kind == EventType.INFO:
        logging.info(event.msg)
    elif event.kind == EventType.WARNING:
@@ -21,54 +21,54 @@ def log_event(event):


@hooks.on(events.RawEvent(EventType.ERROR))
-def log_error(event):
+async def log_error(event):
    logging.error(event.msg)


@hooks.on(events.MemberListChanged)
-def on_memberlist_changed(event):
+async def on_memberlist_changed(event):
    logging.info("member %s was %s", event.member, "added" if event.member_added else "removed")


@hooks.on(events.GroupImageChanged)
-def on_group_image_changed(event):
+async def on_group_image_changed(event):
    logging.info("group image %s", "deleted" if event.image_deleted else "changed")


@hooks.on(events.GroupNameChanged)
-def on_group_name_changed(event):
+async def on_group_name_changed(event):
    logging.info("group name changed, old name: %s", event.old_name)


@hooks.on(events.NewMessage(func=lambda e: not e.command))
-def echo(event):
+async def echo(event):
    snapshot = event.message_snapshot
    if snapshot.text or snapshot.file:
-        snapshot.chat.send_message(text=snapshot.text, file=snapshot.file)
+        await snapshot.chat.send_message(text=snapshot.text, file=snapshot.file)


@hooks.on(events.NewMessage(command="/help"))
-def help_command(event):
+async def help_command(event):
    snapshot = event.message_snapshot
-    snapshot.chat.send_text("Send me any message and I will echo it back")
+    await snapshot.chat.send_text("Send me any message and I will echo it back")


-def main():
-    with Rpc() as rpc:
+async def main():
+    async with Rpc() as rpc:
        deltachat = DeltaChat(rpc)
-        system_info = deltachat.get_system_info()
+        system_info = await deltachat.get_system_info()
        logging.info("Running deltachat core %s", system_info.deltachat_core_version)

-        accounts = deltachat.get_all_accounts()
-        account = accounts[0] if accounts else deltachat.add_account()
+        accounts = await deltachat.get_all_accounts()
+        account = accounts[0] if accounts else await deltachat.add_account()

        bot = Bot(account, hooks)
-        if not bot.is_configured():
-            configure_thread = Thread(run=bot.configure, kwargs={"email": sys.argv[1], "password": sys.argv[2]})
-            configure_thread.start()
-        bot.run_forever()
+        if not await bot.is_configured():
+            # Save a reference to avoid garbage collection of the task.
+            _configure_task = asyncio.create_task(bot.configure(email=sys.argv[1], password=sys.argv[2]))
+        await bot.run_forever()


 if __name__ == "__main__":
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-    main()
+    asyncio.run(main())
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot_no_hooks.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot_no_hooks.py
@@ -2,55 +2,56 @@
 """
 Example echo bot without using hooks
 """
+import asyncio
 import logging
 import sys

 from deltachat_rpc_client import DeltaChat, EventType, Rpc, SpecialContactId


-def main():
-    with Rpc() as rpc:
+async def main():
+    async with Rpc() as rpc:
        deltachat = DeltaChat(rpc)
-        system_info = deltachat.get_system_info()
+        system_info = await deltachat.get_system_info()
        logging.info("Running deltachat core %s", system_info["deltachat_core_version"])

-        accounts = deltachat.get_all_accounts()
-        account = accounts[0] if accounts else deltachat.add_account()
+        accounts = await deltachat.get_all_accounts()
+        account = accounts[0] if accounts else await deltachat.add_account()

-        account.set_config("bot", "1")
-        if not account.is_configured():
+        await account.set_config("bot", "1")
+        if not await account.is_configured():
            logging.info("Account is not configured, configuring")
-            account.set_config("addr", sys.argv[1])
-            account.set_config("mail_pw", sys.argv[2])
-            account.configure()
+            await account.set_config("addr", sys.argv[1])
+            await account.set_config("mail_pw", sys.argv[2])
+            await account.configure()
            logging.info("Configured")
        else:
            logging.info("Account is already configured")
-            deltachat.start_io()
+            await deltachat.start_io()

-        def process_messages():
-            for message in account.get_next_messages():
-                snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+        async def process_messages():
+            for message in await account.get_next_messages():
+                snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
                if snapshot.from_id != SpecialContactId.SELF and not snapshot.is_bot and not snapshot.is_info:
-                    snapshot.chat.send_text(snapshot.text)
-                snapshot.message.mark_seen()
+                    await snapshot.chat.send_text(snapshot.text)
+                await snapshot.message.mark_seen()

        # Process old messages.
-        process_messages()
+        await process_messages()

        while True:
-            event = account.wait_for_event()
-            if event["kind"] == EventType.INFO:
+            event = await account.wait_for_event()
+            if event["type"] == EventType.INFO:
                logging.info("%s", event["msg"])
-            elif event["kind"] == EventType.WARNING:
+            elif event["type"] == EventType.WARNING:
                logging.warning("%s", event["msg"])
-            elif event["kind"] == EventType.ERROR:
+            elif event["type"] == EventType.ERROR:
                logging.error("%s", event["msg"])
-            elif event["kind"] == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
+            elif event["type"] == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
                logging.info("Got an incoming message")
-                process_messages()
+                await process_messages()


 if __name__ == "__main__":
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-    main()
+    asyncio.run(main())
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=45"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

 [project]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-client"
-version = "1.137.2"
 description = "Python client for Delta Chat core JSON-RPC interface"
+dependencies = [
+    "aiohttp"
+]
 classifiers = [
    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Framework :: AsyncIO",
    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
    "License :: OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)",
    "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
@@ -20,7 +23,9 @@ classifiers = [
    "Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
    "Topic :: Communications :: Email"
 ]
-readme = "README.md"
+dynamic = [
+    "version"
+]

 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
 deltachat_rpc_client = [
@@ -30,6 +35,9 @@ deltachat_rpc_client = [
 [project.entry-points.pytest11]
 "deltachat_rpc_client.pytestplugin" = "deltachat_rpc_client.pytestplugin"

+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+root = ".."
+
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 120

--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/init.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/init.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-"""Delta Chat JSON-RPC high-level API"""
-
+"""Delta Chat asynchronous high-level API"""
 from ._utils import AttrDict, run_bot_cli, run_client_cli
 from .account import Account
 from .chat import Chat
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/_utils.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/_utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import argparse
+import asyncio
 import re
 import sys
-from threading import Thread
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable, Iterable, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union

 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class AttrDict(dict):
        super().__setattr__(attr, val)


-def run_client_cli(
+async def run_client_cli(
    hooks: Optional[Iterable[Tuple[Callable, Union[type, "EventFilter"]]]] = None,
    argv: Optional[list] = None,
    **kwargs,
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ def run_client_cli(
    """
    from .client import Client

-    _run_cli(Client, hooks, argv, **kwargs)
+    await _run_cli(Client, hooks, argv, **kwargs)


-def run_bot_cli(
+async def run_bot_cli(
    hooks: Optional[Iterable[Tuple[Callable, Union[type, "EventFilter"]]]] = None,
    argv: Optional[list] = None,
    **kwargs,
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ def run_bot_cli(
    """
    from .client import Bot

-    _run_cli(Bot, hooks, argv, **kwargs)
+    await _run_cli(Bot, hooks, argv, **kwargs)


-def _run_cli(
+async def _run_cli(
    client_type: Type["Client"],
    hooks: Optional[Iterable[Tuple[Callable, Union[type, "EventFilter"]]]] = None,
    argv: Optional[list] = None,
@@ -93,20 +93,20 @@ def _run_cli(
    parser.add_argument("--password", action="store", help="password")
    args = parser.parse_args(argv[1:])

-    with Rpc(accounts_dir=args.accounts_dir, **kwargs) as rpc:
+    async with Rpc(accounts_dir=args.accounts_dir, **kwargs) as rpc:
        deltachat = DeltaChat(rpc)
-        core_version = (deltachat.get_system_info()).deltachat_core_version
-        accounts = deltachat.get_all_accounts()
-        account = accounts[0] if accounts else deltachat.add_account()
+        core_version = (await deltachat.get_system_info()).deltachat_core_version
+        accounts = await deltachat.get_all_accounts()
+        account = accounts[0] if accounts else await deltachat.add_account()

        client = client_type(account, hooks)
        client.logger.debug("Running deltachat core %s", core_version)
-        if not client.is_configured():
+        if not await client.is_configured():
            assert args.email, "Account is not configured and email must be provided"
            assert args.password, "Account is not configured and password must be provided"
-            configure_thread = Thread(run=client.configure, kwargs={"email": args.email, "password": args.password})
-            configure_thread.start()
-        client.run_forever()
+            # Save a reference to avoid garbage collection of the task.
+            _configure_task = asyncio.create_task(client.configure(email=args.email, password=args.password))
+        await client.run_forever()


 def extract_addr(text: str) -> str:
@@ -168,33 +168,3 @@ def parse_system_add_remove(text: str) -> Optional[Tuple[str, str, str]]:
            return "removed", addr, addr

    return None
-
-
-class futuremethod:  # noqa: N801
-    """Decorator for async methods."""
-
-    def __init__(self, func):
-        self._func = func
-
-    def __get__(self, instance, owner=None):
-        if instance is None:
-            return self
-
-        def future(*args):
-            generator = self._func(instance, *args)
-            res = next(generator)
-
-            def f():
-                try:
-                    generator.send(res())
-                except StopIteration as e:
-                    return e.value
-
-            return f
-
-        def wrapper(*args):
-            f = future(*args)
-            return f()
-
-        wrapper.future = future
-        return wrapper
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/account.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/account.py
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 from warnings import warn

-from ._utils import AttrDict, futuremethod
+from ._utils import AttrDict
 from .chat import Chat
-from .const import ChatlistFlag, ContactFlag, EventType, SpecialContactId
+from .const import ChatlistFlag, ContactFlag, SpecialContactId
 from .contact import Contact
 from .message import Message

@@ -24,70 +24,63 @@ class Account:
    def _rpc(self) -> "Rpc":
        return self.manager.rpc

-    def wait_for_event(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def wait_for_event(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Wait until the next event and return it."""
-        return AttrDict(self._rpc.wait_for_event(self.id))
+        return AttrDict(await self._rpc.wait_for_event(self.id))

-    def remove(self) -> None:
+    async def remove(self) -> None:
        """Remove the account."""
-        self._rpc.remove_account(self.id)
+        await self._rpc.remove_account(self.id)

-    def start_io(self) -> None:
+    async def start_io(self) -> None:
        """Start the account I/O."""
-        self._rpc.start_io(self.id)
+        await self._rpc.start_io(self.id)

-    def stop_io(self) -> None:
+    async def stop_io(self) -> None:
        """Stop the account I/O."""
-        self._rpc.stop_io(self.id)
+        await self._rpc.stop_io(self.id)

-    def get_info(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def get_info(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Return dictionary of this account configuration parameters."""
-        return AttrDict(self._rpc.get_info(self.id))
+        return AttrDict(await self._rpc.get_info(self.id))

-    def get_size(self) -> int:
+    async def get_size(self) -> int:
        """Get the combined filesize of an account in bytes."""
-        return self._rpc.get_account_file_size(self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.get_account_file_size(self.id)

-    def is_configured(self) -> bool:
+    async def is_configured(self) -> bool:
        """Return True if this account is configured."""
-        return self._rpc.is_configured(self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.is_configured(self.id)

-    def set_config(self, key: str, value: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
+    async def set_config(self, key: str, value: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
        """Set configuration value."""
-        self._rpc.set_config(self.id, key, value)
+        await self._rpc.set_config(self.id, key, value)

-    def get_config(self, key: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    async def get_config(self, key: str) -> Optional[str]:
        """Get configuration value."""
-        return self._rpc.get_config(self.id, key)
+        return await self._rpc.get_config(self.id, key)

-    def update_config(self, **kwargs) -> None:
+    async def update_config(self, **kwargs) -> None:
        """update config values."""
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
-            self.set_config(key, value)
+            await self.set_config(key, value)

-    def set_avatar(self, img_path: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
+    async def set_avatar(self, img_path: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
        """Set self avatar.

        Passing None will discard the currently set avatar.
        """
-        self.set_config("selfavatar", img_path)
+        await self.set_config("selfavatar", img_path)

-    def get_avatar(self) -> Optional[str]:
+    async def get_avatar(self) -> Optional[str]:
        """Get self avatar."""
-        return self.get_config("selfavatar")
+        return await self.get_config("selfavatar")

-    def check_qr(self, qr):
-        return self._rpc.check_qr(self.id, qr)
-
-    def set_config_from_qr(self, qr: str):
-        self._rpc.set_config_from_qr(self.id, qr)
-
-    @futuremethod
-    def configure(self):
+    async def configure(self) -> None:
        """Configure an account."""
-        yield self._rpc.configure.future(self.id)
+        await self._rpc.configure(self.id)

-    def create_contact(self, obj: Union[int, str, Contact], name: Optional[str] = None) -> Contact:
+    async def create_contact(self, obj: Union[int, str, Contact], name: Optional[str] = None) -> Contact:
        """Create a new Contact or return an existing one.

        Calling this method will always result in the same
@@ -101,38 +94,24 @@ class Account:
        if isinstance(obj, int):
            obj = Contact(self, obj)
        if isinstance(obj, Contact):
-            obj = obj.get_snapshot().address
-        return Contact(self, self._rpc.create_contact(self.id, obj, name))
+            obj = (await obj.get_snapshot()).address
+        return Contact(self, await self._rpc.create_contact(self.id, obj, name))

    def get_contact_by_id(self, contact_id: int) -> Contact:
        """Return Contact instance for the given contact ID."""
        return Contact(self, contact_id)

-    def get_contact_by_addr(self, address: str) -> Optional[Contact]:
+    async def get_contact_by_addr(self, address: str) -> Optional[Contact]:
        """Check if an e-mail address belongs to a known and unblocked contact."""
-        contact_id = self._rpc.lookup_contact_id_by_addr(self.id, address)
+        contact_id = await self._rpc.lookup_contact_id_by_addr(self.id, address)
        return contact_id and Contact(self, contact_id)

-    def get_blocked_contacts(self) -> List[AttrDict]:
+    async def get_blocked_contacts(self) -> List[AttrDict]:
        """Return a list with snapshots of all blocked contacts."""
-        contacts = self._rpc.get_blocked_contacts(self.id)
+        contacts = await self._rpc.get_blocked_contacts(self.id)
        return [AttrDict(contact=Contact(self, contact["id"]), **contact) for contact in contacts]

-    def get_chat_by_contact(self, contact: Union[int, Contact]) -> Optional[Chat]:
-        """Return 1:1 chat for a contact if it exists."""
-        if isinstance(contact, Contact):
-            assert contact.account == self
-            contact_id = contact.id
-        elif isinstance(contact, int):
-            contact_id = contact
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(f"{contact!r} is not a contact")
-        chat_id = self._rpc.get_chat_id_by_contact_id(self.id, contact_id)
-        if chat_id:
-            return Chat(self, chat_id)
-        return None
-
-    def get_contacts(
+    async def get_contacts(
        self,
        query: Optional[str] = None,
        with_self: bool = False,
@@ -154,9 +133,9 @@ class Account:
            flags |= ContactFlag.ADD_SELF

        if snapshot:
-            contacts = self._rpc.get_contacts(self.id, flags, query)
+            contacts = await self._rpc.get_contacts(self.id, flags, query)
            return [AttrDict(contact=Contact(self, contact["id"]), **contact) for contact in contacts]
-        contacts = self._rpc.get_contact_ids(self.id, flags, query)
+        contacts = await self._rpc.get_contact_ids(self.id, flags, query)
        return [Contact(self, contact_id) for contact_id in contacts]

    @property
@@ -164,7 +143,7 @@ class Account:
        """This account's identity as a Contact."""
        return Contact(self, SpecialContactId.SELF)

-    def get_chatlist(
+    async def get_chatlist(
        self,
        query: Optional[str] = None,
        contact: Optional[Contact] = None,
@@ -196,124 +175,95 @@ class Account:
        if alldone_hint:
            flags |= ChatlistFlag.ADD_ALLDONE_HINT

-        entries = self._rpc.get_chatlist_entries(self.id, flags, query, contact and contact.id)
+        entries = await self._rpc.get_chatlist_entries(self.id, flags, query, contact and contact.id)
        if not snapshot:
            return [Chat(self, entry) for entry in entries]

-        items = self._rpc.get_chatlist_items_by_entries(self.id, entries)
+        items = await self._rpc.get_chatlist_items_by_entries(self.id, entries)
        chats = []
        for item in items.values():
            item["chat"] = Chat(self, item["id"])
            chats.append(AttrDict(item))
        return chats

-    def create_group(self, name: str, protect: bool = False) -> Chat:
+    async def create_group(self, name: str, protect: bool = False) -> Chat:
        """Create a new group chat.

        After creation, the group has only self-contact as member and is in unpromoted state.
        """
-        return Chat(self, self._rpc.create_group_chat(self.id, name, protect))
+        return Chat(self, await self._rpc.create_group_chat(self.id, name, protect))

    def get_chat_by_id(self, chat_id: int) -> Chat:
        """Return the Chat instance with the given ID."""
        return Chat(self, chat_id)

-    def secure_join(self, qrdata: str) -> Chat:
+    async def secure_join(self, qrdata: str) -> Chat:
        """Continue a Setup-Contact or Verified-Group-Invite protocol started on
        another device.

        The function returns immediately and the handshake runs in background, sending
        and receiving several messages.
        Subsequent calls of `secure_join()` will abort previous, unfinished handshakes.
-        See https://securejoin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html for protocol details.
+        See https://countermitm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new.html for protocol details.

        :param qrdata: The text of the scanned QR code.
        """
-        return Chat(self, self._rpc.secure_join(self.id, qrdata))
+        return Chat(self, await self._rpc.secure_join(self.id, qrdata))

-    def get_qr_code(self) -> Tuple[str, str]:
+    async def get_qr_code(self) -> Tuple[str, str]:
        """Get Setup-Contact QR Code text and SVG data.

        this data needs to be transferred to another Delta Chat account
        in a second channel, typically used by mobiles with QRcode-show + scan UX.
        """
-        return self._rpc.get_chat_securejoin_qr_code_svg(self.id, None)
+        return await self._rpc.get_chat_securejoin_qr_code_svg(self.id, None)

    def get_message_by_id(self, msg_id: int) -> Message:
        """Return the Message instance with the given ID."""
        return Message(self, msg_id)

-    def mark_seen_messages(self, messages: List[Message]) -> None:
+    async def mark_seen_messages(self, messages: List[Message]) -> None:
        """Mark the given set of messages as seen."""
-        self._rpc.markseen_msgs(self.id, [msg.id for msg in messages])
+        await self._rpc.markseen_msgs(self.id, [msg.id for msg in messages])

-    def delete_messages(self, messages: List[Message]) -> None:
+    async def delete_messages(self, messages: List[Message]) -> None:
        """Delete messages (local and remote)."""
-        self._rpc.delete_messages(self.id, [msg.id for msg in messages])
+        await self._rpc.delete_messages(self.id, [msg.id for msg in messages])

-    def get_fresh_messages(self) -> List[Message]:
+    async def get_fresh_messages(self) -> List[Message]:
        """Return the list of fresh messages, newest messages first.

        This call is intended for displaying notifications.
        If you are writing a bot, use `get_fresh_messages_in_arrival_order()` instead,
        to process oldest messages first.
        """
-        fresh_msg_ids = self._rpc.get_fresh_msgs(self.id)
+        fresh_msg_ids = await self._rpc.get_fresh_msgs(self.id)
        return [Message(self, msg_id) for msg_id in fresh_msg_ids]

-    def get_next_messages(self) -> List[Message]:
+    async def get_next_messages(self) -> List[Message]:
        """Return a list of next messages."""
-        next_msg_ids = self._rpc.get_next_msgs(self.id)
+        next_msg_ids = await self._rpc.get_next_msgs(self.id)
        return [Message(self, msg_id) for msg_id in next_msg_ids]

-    def wait_next_messages(self) -> List[Message]:
+    async def wait_next_messages(self) -> List[Message]:
        """Wait for new messages and return a list of them."""
-        next_msg_ids = self._rpc.wait_next_msgs(self.id)
+        next_msg_ids = await self._rpc.wait_next_msgs(self.id)
        return [Message(self, msg_id) for msg_id in next_msg_ids]

-    def wait_for_incoming_msg_event(self):
-        """Wait for incoming message event and return it."""
-        while True:
-            event = self.wait_for_event()
-            if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
-                return event
-
-    def wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success(self):
-        while True:
-            event = self.wait_for_event()
-            if event["kind"] == "SecurejoinInviterProgress" and event["progress"] == 1000:
-                break
-
-    def wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success(self):
-        while True:
-            event = self.wait_for_event()
-            if event["kind"] == "SecurejoinJoinerProgress" and event["progress"] == 1000:
-                break
-
-    def get_fresh_messages_in_arrival_order(self) -> List[Message]:
+    async def get_fresh_messages_in_arrival_order(self) -> List[Message]:
        """Return fresh messages list sorted in the order of their arrival, with ascending IDs."""
        warn(
            "get_fresh_messages_in_arrival_order is deprecated, use get_next_messages instead.",
            DeprecationWarning,
            stacklevel=2,
        )
-        fresh_msg_ids = sorted(self._rpc.get_fresh_msgs(self.id))
+        fresh_msg_ids = sorted(await self._rpc.get_fresh_msgs(self.id))
        return [Message(self, msg_id) for msg_id in fresh_msg_ids]

-    def export_backup(self, path, passphrase: str = "") -> None:
+    async def export_backup(self, path, passphrase: str = "") -> None:
        """Export backup."""
-        self._rpc.export_backup(self.id, str(path), passphrase)
+        await self._rpc.export_backup(self.id, str(path), passphrase)

-    def import_backup(self, path, passphrase: str = "") -> None:
+    async def import_backup(self, path, passphrase: str = "") -> None:
        """Import backup."""
-        self._rpc.import_backup(self.id, str(path), passphrase)
-
-    def export_self_keys(self, path) -> None:
-        """Export keys."""
-        passphrase = ""  # Setting passphrase is currently not supported.
-        self._rpc.export_self_keys(self.id, str(path), passphrase)
-
-    def import_self_keys(self, path) -> None:
-        """Import keys."""
-        passphrase = ""  # Importing passphrase-protected keys is currently not supported.
-        self._rpc.import_self_keys(self.id, str(path), passphrase)
+        await self._rpc.import_backup(self.id, str(path), passphrase)
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/chat.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/chat.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class Chat:
    def _rpc(self) -> "Rpc":
        return self.account._rpc

-    def delete(self) -> None:
+    async def delete(self) -> None:
        """Delete this chat and all its messages.

        Note:
@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@ class Chat:
        - does not delete messages on server
        - the chat or contact is not blocked, new message will arrive
        """
-        self._rpc.delete_chat(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.delete_chat(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def block(self) -> None:
+    async def block(self) -> None:
        """Block this chat."""
-        self._rpc.block_chat(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.block_chat(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def accept(self) -> None:
+    async def accept(self) -> None:
        """Accept this contact request chat."""
-        self._rpc.accept_chat(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.accept_chat(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def leave(self) -> None:
+    async def leave(self) -> None:
        """Leave this chat."""
-        self._rpc.leave_group(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.leave_group(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def mute(self, duration: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
+    async def mute(self, duration: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
        """Mute this chat, if a duration is not provided the chat is muted forever.

        :param duration: mute duration from now in seconds. Must be greater than zero.
@@ -57,61 +57,59 @@ class Chat:
            dur: dict = {"kind": "Until", "duration": duration}
        else:
            dur = {"kind": "Forever"}
-        self._rpc.set_chat_mute_duration(self.account.id, self.id, dur)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_mute_duration(self.account.id, self.id, dur)

-    def unmute(self) -> None:
+    async def unmute(self) -> None:
        """Unmute this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_mute_duration(self.account.id, self.id, {"kind": "NotMuted"})
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_mute_duration(self.account.id, self.id, {"kind": "NotMuted"})

-    def pin(self) -> None:
+    async def pin(self) -> None:
        """Pin this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.PINNED)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.PINNED)

-    def unpin(self) -> None:
+    async def unpin(self) -> None:
        """Unpin this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.NORMAL)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.NORMAL)

-    def archive(self) -> None:
+    async def archive(self) -> None:
        """Archive this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.ARCHIVED)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.ARCHIVED)

-    def unarchive(self) -> None:
+    async def unarchive(self) -> None:
        """Unarchive this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.NORMAL)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_visibility(self.account.id, self.id, ChatVisibility.NORMAL)

-    def set_name(self, name: str) -> None:
+    async def set_name(self, name: str) -> None:
        """Set name of this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_name(self.account.id, self.id, name)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_name(self.account.id, self.id, name)

-    def set_ephemeral_timer(self, timer: int) -> None:
-        """Set ephemeral timer of this chat in seconds.
+    async def set_ephemeral_timer(self, timer: int) -> None:
+        """Set ephemeral timer of this chat."""
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_ephemeral_timer(self.account.id, self.id, timer)

-        0 means the timer is disabled, use 1 for immediate deletion."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_ephemeral_timer(self.account.id, self.id, timer)
-
-    def get_encryption_info(self) -> str:
+    async def get_encryption_info(self) -> str:
        """Return encryption info for this chat."""
-        return self._rpc.get_chat_encryption_info(self.account.id, self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.get_chat_encryption_info(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def get_qr_code(self) -> Tuple[str, str]:
+    async def get_qr_code(self) -> Tuple[str, str]:
        """Get Join-Group QR code text and SVG data."""
-        return self._rpc.get_chat_securejoin_qr_code_svg(self.account.id, self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.get_chat_securejoin_qr_code_svg(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def get_basic_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def get_basic_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Get a chat snapshot with basic info about this chat."""
-        info = self._rpc.get_basic_chat_info(self.account.id, self.id)
+        info = await self._rpc.get_basic_chat_info(self.account.id, self.id)
        return AttrDict(chat=self, **info)

-    def get_full_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def get_full_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Get a full snapshot of this chat."""
-        info = self._rpc.get_full_chat_by_id(self.account.id, self.id)
+        info = await self._rpc.get_full_chat_by_id(self.account.id, self.id)
        return AttrDict(chat=self, **info)

-    def can_send(self) -> bool:
+    async def can_send(self) -> bool:
        """Return true if messages can be sent to the chat."""
-        return self._rpc.can_send(self.account.id, self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.can_send(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def send_message(
+    async def send_message(
        self,
        text: Optional[str] = None,
        html: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -134,48 +132,47 @@ class Chat:
            "overrideSenderName": override_sender_name,
            "quotedMessageId": quoted_msg,
        }
-        msg_id = self._rpc.send_msg(self.account.id, self.id, draft)
+        msg_id = await self._rpc.send_msg(self.account.id, self.id, draft)
        return Message(self.account, msg_id)

-    def send_text(self, text: str) -> Message:
+    async def send_text(self, text: str) -> Message:
        """Send a text message and return the resulting Message instance."""
-        msg_id = self._rpc.misc_send_text_message(self.account.id, self.id, text)
+        msg_id = await self._rpc.misc_send_text_message(self.account.id, self.id, text)
        return Message(self.account, msg_id)

-    def send_videochat_invitation(self) -> Message:
+    async def send_videochat_invitation(self) -> Message:
        """Send a videochat invitation and return the resulting Message instance."""
-        msg_id = self._rpc.send_videochat_invitation(self.account.id, self.id)
+        msg_id = await self._rpc.send_videochat_invitation(self.account.id, self.id)
        return Message(self.account, msg_id)

-    def send_sticker(self, path: str) -> Message:
+    async def send_sticker(self, path: str) -> Message:
        """Send an sticker and return the resulting Message instance."""
-        msg_id = self._rpc.send_sticker(self.account.id, self.id, path)
+        msg_id = await self._rpc.send_sticker(self.account.id, self.id, path)
        return Message(self.account, msg_id)

-    def forward_messages(self, messages: List[Message]) -> None:
+    async def forward_messages(self, messages: List[Message]) -> None:
        """Forward a list of messages to this chat."""
        msg_ids = [msg.id for msg in messages]
-        self._rpc.forward_messages(self.account.id, msg_ids, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.forward_messages(self.account.id, msg_ids, self.id)

-    def set_draft(
+    async def set_draft(
        self,
        text: Optional[str] = None,
        file: Optional[str] = None,
        quoted_msg: Optional[int] = None,
-        viewtype: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> None:
        """Set draft message."""
        if isinstance(quoted_msg, Message):
            quoted_msg = quoted_msg.id
-        self._rpc.misc_set_draft(self.account.id, self.id, text, file, quoted_msg, viewtype)
+        await self._rpc.misc_set_draft(self.account.id, self.id, text, file, quoted_msg)

-    def remove_draft(self) -> None:
+    async def remove_draft(self) -> None:
        """Remove draft message."""
-        self._rpc.remove_draft(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.remove_draft(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def get_draft(self) -> Optional[AttrDict]:
+    async def get_draft(self) -> Optional[AttrDict]:
        """Get draft message."""
-        snapshot = self._rpc.get_draft(self.account.id, self.id)
+        snapshot = await self._rpc.get_draft(self.account.id, self.id)
        if not snapshot:
            return None
        snapshot = AttrDict(snapshot)
@@ -184,61 +181,61 @@ class Chat:
        snapshot["message"] = Message(self.account, snapshot.id)
        return snapshot

-    def get_messages(self, info_only: bool = False, add_daymarker: bool = False) -> List[Message]:
+    async def get_messages(self, info_only: bool = False, add_daymarker: bool = False) -> List[Message]:
        """get the list of messages in this chat."""
-        msgs = self._rpc.get_message_ids(self.account.id, self.id, info_only, add_daymarker)
+        msgs = await self._rpc.get_message_ids(self.account.id, self.id, info_only, add_daymarker)
        return [Message(self.account, msg_id) for msg_id in msgs]

-    def get_fresh_message_count(self) -> int:
+    async def get_fresh_message_count(self) -> int:
        """Get number of fresh messages in this chat"""
-        return self._rpc.get_fresh_msg_cnt(self.account.id, self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.get_fresh_msg_cnt(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def mark_noticed(self) -> None:
+    async def mark_noticed(self) -> None:
        """Mark all messages in this chat as noticed."""
-        self._rpc.marknoticed_chat(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.marknoticed_chat(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def add_contact(self, *contact: Union[int, str, Contact]) -> None:
+    async def add_contact(self, *contact: Union[int, str, Contact]) -> None:
        """Add contacts to this group."""
        for cnt in contact:
            if isinstance(cnt, str):
-                contact_id = self.account.create_contact(cnt).id
+                contact_id = (await self.account.create_contact(cnt)).id
            elif not isinstance(cnt, int):
                contact_id = cnt.id
            else:
                contact_id = cnt
-            self._rpc.add_contact_to_chat(self.account.id, self.id, contact_id)
+            await self._rpc.add_contact_to_chat(self.account.id, self.id, contact_id)

-    def remove_contact(self, *contact: Union[int, str, Contact]) -> None:
+    async def remove_contact(self, *contact: Union[int, str, Contact]) -> None:
        """Remove members from this group."""
        for cnt in contact:
            if isinstance(cnt, str):
-                contact_id = self.account.create_contact(cnt).id
+                contact_id = (await self.account.create_contact(cnt)).id
            elif not isinstance(cnt, int):
                contact_id = cnt.id
            else:
                contact_id = cnt
-            self._rpc.remove_contact_from_chat(self.account.id, self.id, contact_id)
+            await self._rpc.remove_contact_from_chat(self.account.id, self.id, contact_id)

-    def get_contacts(self) -> List[Contact]:
+    async def get_contacts(self) -> List[Contact]:
        """Get the contacts belonging to this chat.

        For single/direct chats self-address is not included.
        """
-        contacts = self._rpc.get_chat_contacts(self.account.id, self.id)
+        contacts = await self._rpc.get_chat_contacts(self.account.id, self.id)
        return [Contact(self.account, contact_id) for contact_id in contacts]

-    def set_image(self, path: str) -> None:
+    async def set_image(self, path: str) -> None:
        """Set profile image of this chat.

        :param path: Full path of the image to use as the group image.
        """
-        self._rpc.set_chat_profile_image(self.account.id, self.id, path)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_profile_image(self.account.id, self.id, path)

-    def remove_image(self) -> None:
+    async def remove_image(self) -> None:
        """Remove profile image of this chat."""
-        self._rpc.set_chat_profile_image(self.account.id, self.id, None)
+        await self._rpc.set_chat_profile_image(self.account.id, self.id, None)

-    def get_locations(
+    async def get_locations(
        self,
        contact: Optional[Contact] = None,
        timestamp_from: Optional["datetime"] = None,
@@ -249,7 +246,7 @@ class Chat:
        time_to = calendar.timegm(timestamp_to.utctimetuple()) if timestamp_to else 0
        contact_id = contact.id if contact else 0

-        result = self._rpc.get_locations(self.account.id, self.id, contact_id, time_from, time_to)
+        result = await self._rpc.get_locations(self.account.id, self.id, contact_id, time_from, time_to)
        locations = []
        contacts: Dict[int, Contact] = {}
        for loc in result:
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/client.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/client.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 """Event loop implementations offering high level event handling/hooking."""
-
+import inspect
 import logging
 from typing import (
    TYPE_CHECKING,
    Callable,
+    Coroutine,
    Dict,
    Iterable,
    Optional,
@@ -77,22 +78,22 @@ class Client:
        )
        self._hooks.get(type(event), set()).remove((hook, event))

-    def is_configured(self) -> bool:
-        return self.account.is_configured()
+    async def is_configured(self) -> bool:
+        return await self.account.is_configured()

-    def configure(self, email: str, password: str, **kwargs) -> None:
-        self.account.set_config("addr", email)
-        self.account.set_config("mail_pw", password)
+    async def configure(self, email: str, password: str, **kwargs) -> None:
+        await self.account.set_config("addr", email)
+        await self.account.set_config("mail_pw", password)
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
-            self.account.set_config(key, value)
-        self.account.configure()
+            await self.account.set_config(key, value)
+        await self.account.configure()
        self.logger.debug("Account configured")

-    def run_forever(self) -> None:
+    async def run_forever(self) -> None:
        """Process events forever."""
-        self.run_until(lambda _: False)
+        await self.run_until(lambda _: False)

-    def run_until(self, func: Callable[[AttrDict], bool]) -> AttrDict:
+    async def run_until(self, func: Callable[[AttrDict], Union[bool, Coroutine]]) -> AttrDict:
        """Process events until the given callable evaluates to True.

        The callable should accept an AttrDict object representing the
@@ -100,37 +101,39 @@ class Client:
        evaluates to True.
        """
        self.logger.debug("Listening to incoming events...")
-        if self.is_configured():
-            self.account.start_io()
-        self._process_messages()  # Process old messages.
+        if await self.is_configured():
+            await self.account.start_io()
+        await self._process_messages()  # Process old messages.
        while True:
-            event = self.account.wait_for_event()
+            event = await self.account.wait_for_event()
            event["kind"] = EventType(event.kind)
            event["account"] = self.account
-            self._on_event(event)
+            await self._on_event(event)
            if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
-                self._process_messages()
+                await self._process_messages()

            stop = func(event)
+            if inspect.isawaitable(stop):
+                stop = await stop
            if stop:
                return event

-    def _on_event(self, event: AttrDict, filter_type: Type[EventFilter] = RawEvent) -> None:
+    async def _on_event(self, event: AttrDict, filter_type: Type[EventFilter] = RawEvent) -> None:
        for hook, evfilter in self._hooks.get(filter_type, []):
-            if evfilter.filter(event):
+            if await evfilter.filter(event):
                try:
-                    hook(event)
+                    await hook(event)
                except Exception as ex:
                    self.logger.exception(ex)

-    def _parse_command(self, event: AttrDict) -> None:
+    async def _parse_command(self, event: AttrDict) -> None:
        cmds = [hook[1].command for hook in self._hooks.get(NewMessage, []) if hook[1].command]
        parts = event.message_snapshot.text.split(maxsplit=1)
        payload = parts[1] if len(parts) > 1 else ""
        cmd = parts.pop(0)

        if "@" in cmd:
-            suffix = "@" + self.account.self_contact.get_snapshot().address
+            suffix = "@" + (await self.account.self_contact.get_snapshot()).address
            if cmd.endswith(suffix):
                cmd = cmd[: -len(suffix)]
            else:
@@ -150,32 +153,32 @@ class Client:

        event["command"], event["payload"] = cmd, payload

-    def _on_new_msg(self, snapshot: AttrDict) -> None:
+    async def _on_new_msg(self, snapshot: AttrDict) -> None:
        event = AttrDict(command="", payload="", message_snapshot=snapshot)
        if not snapshot.is_info and snapshot.text.startswith(COMMAND_PREFIX):
-            self._parse_command(event)
-        self._on_event(event, NewMessage)
+            await self._parse_command(event)
+        await self._on_event(event, NewMessage)

-    def _handle_info_msg(self, snapshot: AttrDict) -> None:
+    async def _handle_info_msg(self, snapshot: AttrDict) -> None:
        event = AttrDict(message_snapshot=snapshot)

        img_changed = parse_system_image_changed(snapshot.text)
        if img_changed:
            _, event["image_deleted"] = img_changed
-            self._on_event(event, GroupImageChanged)
+            await self._on_event(event, GroupImageChanged)
            return

        title_changed = parse_system_title_changed(snapshot.text)
        if title_changed:
            _, event["old_name"] = title_changed
-            self._on_event(event, GroupNameChanged)
+            await self._on_event(event, GroupNameChanged)
            return

        members_changed = parse_system_add_remove(snapshot.text)
        if members_changed:
            action, event["member"], _ = members_changed
            event["member_added"] = action == "added"
-            self._on_event(event, MemberListChanged)
+            await self._on_event(event, MemberListChanged)
            return

        self.logger.warning(
@@ -184,20 +187,20 @@ class Client:
            snapshot.text,
        )

-    def _process_messages(self) -> None:
+    async def _process_messages(self) -> None:
        if self._should_process_messages:
-            for message in self.account.get_next_messages():
-                snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+            for message in await self.account.get_next_messages():
+                snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
                if snapshot.from_id not in [SpecialContactId.SELF, SpecialContactId.DEVICE]:
-                    self._on_new_msg(snapshot)
+                    await self._on_new_msg(snapshot)
                if snapshot.is_info and snapshot.system_message_type != SystemMessageType.WEBXDC_INFO_MESSAGE:
-                    self._handle_info_msg(snapshot)
-                snapshot.message.mark_seen()
+                    await self._handle_info_msg(snapshot)
+                await snapshot.message.mark_seen()


 class Bot(Client):
-    """Simple bot implementation that listens to events of a single account."""
+    """Simple bot implementation that listent to events of a single account."""

-    def configure(self, email: str, password: str, **kwargs) -> None:
+    async def configure(self, email: str, password: str, **kwargs) -> None:
        kwargs.setdefault("bot", "1")
-        super().configure(email, password, **kwargs)
+        await super().configure(email, password, **kwargs)
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/const.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/const.py
@@ -61,15 +61,6 @@ class EventType(str, Enum):
    WEBXDC_INSTANCE_DELETED = "WebxdcInstanceDeleted"


-class ChatId(IntEnum):
-    """Special chat ids"""
-
-    TRASH = 3
-    ARCHIVED_LINK = 6
-    ALLDONE_HINT = 7
-    LAST_SPECIAL = 9
-
-
 class ChatType(IntEnum):
    """Chat types"""

@@ -131,107 +122,3 @@ class SystemMessageType(str, Enum):
    EPHEMERAL_TIMER_CHANGED = "EphemeralTimerChanged"
    MULTI_DEVICE_SYNC = "MultiDeviceSync"
    WEBXDC_INFO_MESSAGE = "WebxdcInfoMessage"
-
-
-class MessageState(IntEnum):
-    """State of the message."""
-
-    UNDEFINED = 0
-    IN_FRESH = 10
-    IN_NOTICED = 13
-    IN_SEEN = 16
-    OUT_PREPARING = 18
-    OUT_DRAFT = 19
-    OUT_PENDING = 20
-    OUT_FAILED = 24
-    OUT_DELIVERED = 26
-    OUT_MDN_RCVD = 28
-
-
-class MessageId(IntEnum):
-    """Special message ids"""
-
-    DAYMARKER = 9
-    LAST_SPECIAL = 9
-
-
-class CertificateChecks(IntEnum):
-    """Certificate checks mode"""
-
-    AUTOMATIC = 0
-    STRICT = 1
-    ACCEPT_INVALID_CERTIFICATES = 3
-
-
-class Connectivity(IntEnum):
-    """Connectivity states"""
-
-    NOT_CONNECTED = 1000
-    CONNECTING = 2000
-    WORKING = 3000
-    CONNECTED = 4000
-
-
-class KeyGenType(IntEnum):
-    """Type of the key to generate"""
-
-    DEFAULT = 0
-    RSA2048 = 1
-    ED25519 = 2
-    RSA4096 = 3
-
-
-# "Lp" means "login parameters"
-class LpAuthFlag(IntEnum):
-    """Authorization flags"""
-
-    OAUTH2 = 0x2
-    NORMAL = 0x4
-
-
-class MediaQuality(IntEnum):
-    """Media quality setting"""
-
-    BALANCED = 0
-    WORSE = 1
-
-
-class ProviderStatus(IntEnum):
-    """Provider status according to manual testing"""
-
-    OK = 1
-    PREPARATION = 2
-    BROKEN = 3
-
-
-class PushNotifyState(IntEnum):
-    """Push notifications state"""
-
-    NOT_CONNECTED = 0
-    HEARTBEAT = 1
-    CONNECTED = 2
-
-
-class ShowEmails(IntEnum):
-    """Show emails mode"""
-
-    OFF = 0
-    ACCEPTED_CONTACTS = 1
-    ALL = 2
-
-
-class SocketSecurity(IntEnum):
-    """Socket security"""
-
-    AUTOMATIC = 0
-    SSL = 1
-    STARTTLS = 2
-    PLAIN = 3
-
-
-class VideochatType(IntEnum):
-    """Video chat URL type"""
-
-    UNKNOWN = 0
-    BASICWEBRTC = 1
-    JITSI = 2
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/contact.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/contact.py
@@ -24,39 +24,39 @@ class Contact:
    def _rpc(self) -> "Rpc":
        return self.account._rpc

-    def block(self) -> None:
+    async def block(self) -> None:
        """Block contact."""
-        self._rpc.block_contact(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.block_contact(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def unblock(self) -> None:
+    async def unblock(self) -> None:
        """Unblock contact."""
-        self._rpc.unblock_contact(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.unblock_contact(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def delete(self) -> None:
+    async def delete(self) -> None:
        """Delete contact."""
-        self._rpc.delete_contact(self.account.id, self.id)
+        await self._rpc.delete_contact(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def set_name(self, name: str) -> None:
+    async def set_name(self, name: str) -> None:
        """Change the name of this contact."""
-        self._rpc.change_contact_name(self.account.id, self.id, name)
+        await self._rpc.change_contact_name(self.account.id, self.id, name)

-    def get_encryption_info(self) -> str:
+    async def get_encryption_info(self) -> str:
        """Get a multi-line encryption info, containing your fingerprint and
        the fingerprint of the contact.
        """
-        return self._rpc.get_contact_encryption_info(self.account.id, self.id)
+        return await self._rpc.get_contact_encryption_info(self.account.id, self.id)

-    def get_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def get_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Return a dictionary with a snapshot of all contact properties."""
-        snapshot = AttrDict(self._rpc.get_contact(self.account.id, self.id))
+        snapshot = AttrDict(await self._rpc.get_contact(self.account.id, self.id))
        snapshot["contact"] = self
        return snapshot

-    def create_chat(self) -> "Chat":
+    async def create_chat(self) -> "Chat":
        """Create or get an existing 1:1 chat for this contact."""
        from .chat import Chat

        return Chat(
            self.account,
-            self._rpc.create_chat_by_contact_id(self.account.id, self.id),
+            await self._rpc.create_chat_by_contact_id(self.account.id, self.id),
        )
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/deltachat.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/deltachat.py
@@ -16,34 +16,34 @@ class DeltaChat:
    def __init__(self, rpc: "Rpc") -> None:
        self.rpc = rpc

-    def add_account(self) -> Account:
+    async def add_account(self) -> Account:
        """Create a new account database."""
-        account_id = self.rpc.add_account()
+        account_id = await self.rpc.add_account()
        return Account(self, account_id)

-    def get_all_accounts(self) -> List[Account]:
+    async def get_all_accounts(self) -> List[Account]:
        """Return a list of all available accounts."""
-        account_ids = self.rpc.get_all_account_ids()
+        account_ids = await self.rpc.get_all_account_ids()
        return [Account(self, account_id) for account_id in account_ids]

-    def start_io(self) -> None:
+    async def start_io(self) -> None:
        """Start the I/O of all accounts."""
-        self.rpc.start_io_for_all_accounts()
+        await self.rpc.start_io_for_all_accounts()

-    def stop_io(self) -> None:
+    async def stop_io(self) -> None:
        """Stop the I/O of all accounts."""
-        self.rpc.stop_io_for_all_accounts()
+        await self.rpc.stop_io_for_all_accounts()

-    def maybe_network(self) -> None:
+    async def maybe_network(self) -> None:
        """Indicate that the network likely has come back or just that the network
        conditions might have changed.
        """
-        self.rpc.maybe_network()
+        await self.rpc.maybe_network()

-    def get_system_info(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def get_system_info(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Get information about the Delta Chat core in this system."""
-        return AttrDict(self.rpc.get_system_info())
+        return AttrDict(await self.rpc.get_system_info())

-    def set_translations(self, translations: Dict[str, str]) -> None:
+    async def set_translations(self, translations: Dict[str, str]) -> None:
        """Set stock translation strings."""
-        self.rpc.set_stock_strings(translations)
+        await self.rpc.set_stock_strings(translations)
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/events.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/events.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """High-level classes for event processing and filtering."""
-
+import inspect
 import re
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable, Iterable, Iterator, Optional, Set, Tuple, Union
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def _tuple_of(obj, type_: type) -> tuple:
 class EventFilter(ABC):
    """The base event filter.

-    :param func: A Callable function that should accept the event as input
+    :param func: A Callable (async or not) function that should accept the event as input
                 parameter, and return a bool value indicating whether the event
                 should be dispatched or not.
    """
@@ -43,13 +43,16 @@ class EventFilter(ABC):
    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not self == other

-    def _call_func(self, event) -> bool:
+    async def _call_func(self, event) -> bool:
        if not self.func:
            return True
-        return self.func(event)
+        res = self.func(event)
+        if inspect.isawaitable(res):
+            return await res
+        return res

    @abstractmethod
-    def filter(self, event):
+    async def filter(self, event):
        """Return True-like value if the event passed the filter and should be
        used, or False-like value otherwise.
        """
@@ -59,7 +62,7 @@ class RawEvent(EventFilter):
    """Matches raw core events.

    :param types: The types of event to match.
-    :param func: A Callable function that should accept the event as input
+    :param func: A Callable (async or not) function that should accept the event as input
                 parameter, and return a bool value indicating whether the event
                 should be dispatched or not.
    """
@@ -79,10 +82,10 @@ class RawEvent(EventFilter):
            return (self.types, self.func) == (other.types, other.func)
        return False

-    def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
+    async def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
        if self.types and event.kind not in self.types:
            return False
-        return self._call_func(event)
+        return await self._call_func(event)


 class NewMessage(EventFilter):
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ class NewMessage(EventFilter):
    :param is_info: If set to True only match info/system messages, if set to False
                    only match messages that are not info/system messages. If omitted
                    info/system messages as well as normal messages will be matched.
-    :param func: A Callable function that should accept the event as input
+    :param func: A Callable (async or not) function that should accept the event as input
                 parameter, and return a bool value indicating whether the event
                 should be dispatched or not.
    """
@@ -156,7 +159,7 @@ class NewMessage(EventFilter):
            )
        return False

-    def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
+    async def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
        if self.is_bot is not None and self.is_bot != event.message_snapshot.is_bot:
            return False
        if self.is_info is not None and self.is_info != event.message_snapshot.is_info:
@@ -165,9 +168,11 @@ class NewMessage(EventFilter):
            return False
        if self.pattern:
            match = self.pattern(event.message_snapshot.text)
+            if inspect.isawaitable(match):
+                match = await match
            if not match:
                return False
-        return super()._call_func(event)
+        return await super()._call_func(event)


 class MemberListChanged(EventFilter):
@@ -179,7 +184,7 @@ class MemberListChanged(EventFilter):
    :param added: If set to True only match if a member was added, if set to False
                  only match if a member was removed. If omitted both, member additions
                  and removals, will be matched.
-    :param func: A Callable function that should accept the event as input
+    :param func: A Callable (async or not) function that should accept the event as input
                 parameter, and return a bool value indicating whether the event
                 should be dispatched or not.
    """
@@ -196,10 +201,10 @@ class MemberListChanged(EventFilter):
            return (self.added, self.func) == (other.added, other.func)
        return False

-    def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
+    async def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
        if self.added is not None and self.added != event.member_added:
            return False
-        return self._call_func(event)
+        return await self._call_func(event)


 class GroupImageChanged(EventFilter):
@@ -211,7 +216,7 @@ class GroupImageChanged(EventFilter):
    :param deleted: If set to True only match if the image was deleted, if set to False
                    only match if a new image was set. If omitted both, image changes and
                    removals, will be matched.
-    :param func: A Callable function that should accept the event as input
+    :param func: A Callable (async or not) function that should accept the event as input
                 parameter, and return a bool value indicating whether the event
                 should be dispatched or not.
    """
@@ -228,10 +233,10 @@ class GroupImageChanged(EventFilter):
            return (self.deleted, self.func) == (other.deleted, other.func)
        return False

-    def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
+    async def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
        if self.deleted is not None and self.deleted != event.image_deleted:
            return False
-        return self._call_func(event)
+        return await self._call_func(event)


 class GroupNameChanged(EventFilter):
@@ -240,7 +245,7 @@ class GroupNameChanged(EventFilter):
    Warning: registering a handler for this event will cause the messages
    to be marked as read. Its usage is mainly intended for bots.

-    :param func: A Callable function that should accept the event as input
+    :param func: A Callable (async or not) function that should accept the event as input
                 parameter, and return a bool value indicating whether the event
                 should be dispatched or not.
    """
@@ -253,8 +258,8 @@ class GroupNameChanged(EventFilter):
            return self.func == other.func
        return False

-    def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
-        return self._call_func(event)
+    async def filter(self, event: "AttrDict") -> bool:
+        return await self._call_func(event)


 class HookCollection:
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/message.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/message.py
@@ -21,43 +21,39 @@ class Message:
    def _rpc(self) -> "Rpc":
        return self.account._rpc

-    def send_reaction(self, *reaction: str):
+    async def send_reaction(self, *reaction: str):
        """Send a reaction to this message."""
-        self._rpc.send_reaction(self.account.id, self.id, reaction)
+        await self._rpc.send_reaction(self.account.id, self.id, reaction)

-    def get_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
+    async def get_snapshot(self) -> AttrDict:
        """Get a snapshot with the properties of this message."""
        from .chat import Chat

-        snapshot = AttrDict(self._rpc.get_message(self.account.id, self.id))
+        snapshot = AttrDict(await self._rpc.get_message(self.account.id, self.id))
        snapshot["chat"] = Chat(self.account, snapshot.chat_id)
        snapshot["sender"] = Contact(self.account, snapshot.from_id)
        snapshot["message"] = self
        return snapshot

-    def get_reactions(self) -> Optional[AttrDict]:
+    async def get_reactions(self) -> Optional[AttrDict]:
        """Get message reactions."""
-        reactions = self._rpc.get_message_reactions(self.account.id, self.id)
+        reactions = await self._rpc.get_message_reactions(self.account.id, self.id)
        if reactions:
            return AttrDict(reactions)
        return None

-    def get_sender_contact(self) -> Contact:
-        from_id = self.get_snapshot().from_id
-        return self.account.get_contact_by_id(from_id)
-
-    def mark_seen(self) -> None:
+    async def mark_seen(self) -> None:
        """Mark the message as seen."""
-        self._rpc.markseen_msgs(self.account.id, [self.id])
+        await self._rpc.markseen_msgs(self.account.id, [self.id])

-    def send_webxdc_status_update(self, update: Union[dict, str], description: str) -> None:
+    async def send_webxdc_status_update(self, update: Union[dict, str], description: str) -> None:
        """Send a webxdc status update. This message must be a webxdc."""
        if not isinstance(update, str):
            update = json.dumps(update)
-        self._rpc.send_webxdc_status_update(self.account.id, self.id, update, description)
+        await self._rpc.send_webxdc_status_update(self.account.id, self.id, update, description)

-    def get_webxdc_status_updates(self, last_known_serial: int = 0) -> list:
-        return json.loads(self._rpc.get_webxdc_status_updates(self.account.id, self.id, last_known_serial))
+    async def get_webxdc_status_updates(self, last_known_serial: int = 0) -> list:
+        return json.loads(await self._rpc.get_webxdc_status_updates(self.account.id, self.id, last_known_serial))

-    def get_webxdc_info(self) -> dict:
-        return self._rpc.get_webxdc_info(self.account.id, self.id)
+    async def get_webxdc_info(self) -> dict:
+        return await self._rpc.get_webxdc_info(self.account.id, self.id)
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/pytestplugin.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/pytestplugin.py
@@ -1,81 +1,70 @@
+import asyncio
+import json
 import os
-import random
 from typing import AsyncGenerator, List, Optional

-import pytest
+import aiohttp
+import pytest_asyncio

 from . import Account, AttrDict, Bot, Client, DeltaChat, EventType, Message
-from ._utils import futuremethod
 from .rpc import Rpc


-def get_temp_credentials() -> dict:
-    domain = os.getenv("CHATMAIL_DOMAIN")
-    username = "ci-" + "".join(random.choice("2345789acdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz") for i in range(6))
-    password = f"{username}${username}"
-    addr = f"{username}@{domain}"
-    return {"email": addr, "password": password}
+async def get_temp_credentials() -> dict:
+    url = os.getenv("DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL")
+    assert url, "Failed to get online account, DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL is not set"
+
+    # Replace default 5 minute timeout with a 1 minute timeout.
+    timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=60)
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session, session.post(url, timeout=timeout) as response:
+        return json.loads(await response.text())


 class ACFactory:
    def __init__(self, deltachat: DeltaChat) -> None:
        self.deltachat = deltachat

-    def get_unconfigured_account(self) -> Account:
-        account = self.deltachat.add_account()
-        account.set_config("verified_one_on_one_chats", "1")
-        return account
+    async def get_unconfigured_account(self) -> Account:
+        return await self.deltachat.add_account()

-    def get_unconfigured_bot(self) -> Bot:
-        return Bot(self.get_unconfigured_account())
+    async def get_unconfigured_bot(self) -> Bot:
+        return Bot(await self.get_unconfigured_account())

-    def new_preconfigured_account(self) -> Account:
+    async def new_preconfigured_account(self) -> Account:
        """Make a new account with configuration options set, but configuration not started."""
-        credentials = get_temp_credentials()
-        account = self.get_unconfigured_account()
-        account.set_config("addr", credentials["email"])
-        account.set_config("mail_pw", credentials["password"])
-        assert not account.is_configured()
+        credentials = await get_temp_credentials()
+        account = await self.get_unconfigured_account()
+        await account.set_config("addr", credentials["email"])
+        await account.set_config("mail_pw", credentials["password"])
+        assert not await account.is_configured()
        return account

-    @futuremethod
-    def new_configured_account(self):
-        account = self.new_preconfigured_account()
-        yield account.configure.future()
-        assert account.is_configured()
+    async def new_configured_account(self) -> Account:
+        account = await self.new_preconfigured_account()
+        await account.configure()
+        assert await account.is_configured()
        return account

-    def new_configured_bot(self) -> Bot:
-        credentials = get_temp_credentials()
-        bot = self.get_unconfigured_bot()
-        bot.configure(credentials["email"], credentials["password"])
+    async def new_configured_bot(self) -> Bot:
+        credentials = await get_temp_credentials()
+        bot = await self.get_unconfigured_bot()
+        await bot.configure(credentials["email"], credentials["password"])
        return bot

-    @futuremethod
-    def get_online_account(self):
-        account = yield self.new_configured_account.future()
-        account.start_io()
+    async def get_online_account(self) -> Account:
+        account = await self.new_configured_account()
+        await account.start_io()
        while True:
-            event = account.wait_for_event()
+            event = await account.wait_for_event()
+            print(event)
            if event.kind == EventType.IMAP_INBOX_IDLE:
                break
        return account

-    def get_online_accounts(self, num: int) -> List[Account]:
-        futures = [self.get_online_account.future() for _ in range(num)]
-        return [f() for f in futures]
+    async def get_online_accounts(self, num: int) -> List[Account]:
+        return await asyncio.gather(*[self.get_online_account() for _ in range(num)])

-    def resetup_account(self, ac: Account) -> Account:
-        """Resetup account from scratch, losing the encryption key."""
-        ac.stop_io()
-        ac_clone = self.get_unconfigured_account()
-        for i in ["addr", "mail_pw"]:
-            ac_clone.set_config(i, ac.get_config(i))
-        ac.remove()
-        ac_clone.configure()
-        return ac_clone
-
-    def send_message(
+    async def send_message(
        self,
        to_account: Account,
        from_account: Optional[Account] = None,
@@ -84,16 +73,16 @@ class ACFactory:
        group: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> Message:
        if not from_account:
-            from_account = (self.get_online_accounts(1))[0]
-        to_contact = from_account.create_contact(to_account.get_config("addr"))
+            from_account = (await self.get_online_accounts(1))[0]
+        to_contact = await from_account.create_contact(await to_account.get_config("addr"))
        if group:
-            to_chat = from_account.create_group(group)
-            to_chat.add_contact(to_contact)
+            to_chat = await from_account.create_group(group)
+            await to_chat.add_contact(to_contact)
        else:
-            to_chat = to_contact.create_chat()
-        return to_chat.send_message(text=text, file=file)
+            to_chat = await to_contact.create_chat()
+        return await to_chat.send_message(text=text, file=file)

-    def process_message(
+    async def process_message(
        self,
        to_client: Client,
        from_account: Optional[Account] = None,
@@ -101,7 +90,7 @@ class ACFactory:
        file: Optional[str] = None,
        group: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> AttrDict:
-        self.send_message(
+        await self.send_message(
            to_account=to_client.account,
            from_account=from_account,
            text=text,
@@ -109,16 +98,16 @@ class ACFactory:
            group=group,
        )

-        return to_client.run_until(lambda e: e.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG)
+        return await to_client.run_until(lambda e: e.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG)


-@pytest.fixture()
-def rpc(tmp_path) -> AsyncGenerator:
+@pytest_asyncio.fixture
+async def rpc(tmp_path) -> AsyncGenerator:
    rpc_server = Rpc(accounts_dir=str(tmp_path / "accounts"))
-    with rpc_server:
+    async with rpc_server:
        yield rpc_server


-@pytest.fixture()
-def acfactory(rpc) -> AsyncGenerator:
-    return ACFactory(DeltaChat(rpc))
+@pytest_asyncio.fixture
+async def acfactory(rpc) -> AsyncGenerator:
+    yield ACFactory(DeltaChat(rpc))
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/rpc.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/rpc.py
@@ -1,63 +1,16 @@
-import itertools
+import asyncio
 import json
-import logging
 import os
-import subprocess
-import sys
-from queue import Queue
-from threading import Event, Thread
-from typing import Any, Dict, Iterator, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional


 class JsonRpcError(Exception):
    pass


-class RpcFuture:
-    def __init__(self, rpc: "Rpc", request_id: int, event: Event):
-        self.rpc = rpc
-        self.request_id = request_id
-        self.event = event
-
-    def __call__(self):
-        self.event.wait()
-        response = self.rpc.request_results.pop(self.request_id)
-        if "error" in response:
-            raise JsonRpcError(response["error"])
-        if "result" in response:
-            return response["result"]
-        return None
-
-
-class RpcMethod:
-    def __init__(self, rpc: "Rpc", name: str):
-        self.rpc = rpc
-        self.name = name
-
-    def __call__(self, *args) -> Any:
-        """Synchronously calls JSON-RPC method."""
-        future = self.future(*args)
-        return future()
-
-    def future(self, *args) -> Any:
-        """Asynchronously calls JSON-RPC method."""
-        request_id = next(self.rpc.id_iterator)
-        request = {
-            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
-            "method": self.name,
-            "params": args,
-            "id": request_id,
-        }
-        event = Event()
-        self.rpc.request_events[request_id] = event
-        self.rpc.request_queue.put(request)
-
-        return RpcFuture(self.rpc, request_id, event)
-
-
 class Rpc:
    def __init__(self, accounts_dir: Optional[str] = None, **kwargs):
-        """The given arguments will be passed to subprocess.Popen()"""
+        """The given arguments will be passed to asyncio.create_subprocess_exec()"""
        if accounts_dir:
            kwargs["env"] = {
                **kwargs.get("env", os.environ),
@@ -65,126 +18,97 @@ class Rpc:
            }

        self._kwargs = kwargs
-        self.process: subprocess.Popen
-        self.id_iterator: Iterator[int]
-        self.event_queues: Dict[int, Queue]
-        # Map from request ID to `threading.Event`.
-        self.request_events: Dict[int, Event]
-        # Map from request ID to the result.
-        self.request_results: Dict[int, Any]
-        self.request_queue: Queue[Any]
+        self.process: asyncio.subprocess.Process
+        self.id: int
+        self.event_queues: Dict[int, asyncio.Queue]
+        # Map from request ID to `asyncio.Future` returning the response.
+        self.request_events: Dict[int, asyncio.Future]
        self.closing: bool
-        self.reader_thread: Thread
-        self.writer_thread: Thread
-        self.events_thread: Thread
+        self.reader_task: asyncio.Task
+        self.events_task: asyncio.Task

-    def start(self) -> None:
-        if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
-            self.process = subprocess.Popen(
-                "deltachat-rpc-server",
-                stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                # Prevent subprocess from capturing SIGINT.
-                process_group=0,
-                **self._kwargs,
-            )
-        else:
-            self.process = subprocess.Popen(
-                "deltachat-rpc-server",
-                stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                # `process_group` is not supported before Python 3.11.
-                preexec_fn=os.setpgrp,  # noqa: PLW1509
-                **self._kwargs,
-            )
-        self.id_iterator = itertools.count(start=1)
+    async def start(self) -> None:
+        self.process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
+            "deltachat-rpc-server",
+            stdin=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
+            stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
+            **self._kwargs,
+        )
+        self.id = 0
        self.event_queues = {}
        self.request_events = {}
-        self.request_results = {}
-        self.request_queue = Queue()
        self.closing = False
-        self.reader_thread = Thread(target=self.reader_loop)
-        self.reader_thread.start()
-        self.writer_thread = Thread(target=self.writer_loop)
-        self.writer_thread.start()
-        self.events_thread = Thread(target=self.events_loop)
-        self.events_thread.start()
+        self.reader_task = asyncio.create_task(self.reader_loop())
+        self.events_task = asyncio.create_task(self.events_loop())

-    def close(self) -> None:
+    async def close(self) -> None:
        """Terminate RPC server process and wait until the reader loop finishes."""
        self.closing = True
-        self.stop_io_for_all_accounts()
-        self.events_thread.join()
-        self.process.stdin.close()
-        self.reader_thread.join()
-        self.request_queue.put(None)
-        self.writer_thread.join()
+        await self.stop_io_for_all_accounts()
+        await self.events_task
+        self.process.terminate()
+        await self.reader_task

-    def __enter__(self):
-        self.start()
+    async def __aenter__(self):
+        await self.start()
        return self

-    def __exit__(self, _exc_type, _exc, _tb):
-        self.close()
+    async def __aexit__(self, _exc_type, _exc, _tb):
+        await self.close()

-    def reader_loop(self) -> None:
-        try:
-            while True:
-                line = self.process.stdout.readline()
-                if not line:  # EOF
-                    break
-                response = json.loads(line)
-                if "id" in response:
-                    response_id = response["id"]
-                    event = self.request_events.pop(response_id)
-                    self.request_results[response_id] = response
-                    event.set()
-                else:
-                    logging.warning("Got a response without ID: %s", response)
-        except Exception:
-            # Log an exception if the reader loop dies.
-            logging.exception("Exception in the reader loop")
+    async def reader_loop(self) -> None:
+        while True:
+            line = await self.process.stdout.readline()  # noqa
+            if not line:  # EOF
+                break
+            response = json.loads(line)
+            if "id" in response:
+                fut = self.request_events.pop(response["id"])
+                fut.set_result(response)
+            else:
+                print(response)

-    def writer_loop(self) -> None:
-        """Writer loop ensuring only a single thread writes requests."""
-        try:
-            while True:
-                request = self.request_queue.get()
-                if not request:
-                    break
-                data = (json.dumps(request) + "\n").encode()
-                self.process.stdin.write(data)
-                self.process.stdin.flush()
-
-        except Exception:
-            # Log an exception if the writer loop dies.
-            logging.exception("Exception in the writer loop")
-
-    def get_queue(self, account_id: int) -> Queue:
+    async def get_queue(self, account_id: int) -> asyncio.Queue:
        if account_id not in self.event_queues:
-            self.event_queues[account_id] = Queue()
+            self.event_queues[account_id] = asyncio.Queue()
        return self.event_queues[account_id]

-    def events_loop(self) -> None:
+    async def events_loop(self) -> None:
        """Requests new events and distributes them between queues."""
-        try:
-            while True:
-                if self.closing:
-                    return
-                event = self.get_next_event()
-                account_id = event["contextId"]
-                queue = self.get_queue(account_id)
-                event = event["event"]
-                logging.debug("account_id=%d got an event %s", account_id, event)
-                queue.put(event)
-        except Exception:
-            # Log an exception if the event loop dies.
-            logging.exception("Exception in the event loop")
+        while True:
+            if self.closing:
+                return
+            event = await self.get_next_event()
+            account_id = event["contextId"]
+            queue = await self.get_queue(account_id)
+            await queue.put(event["event"])

-    def wait_for_event(self, account_id: int) -> Optional[dict]:
+    async def wait_for_event(self, account_id: int) -> Optional[dict]:
        """Waits for the next event from the given account and returns it."""
-        queue = self.get_queue(account_id)
-        return queue.get()
+        queue = await self.get_queue(account_id)
+        return await queue.get()

    def __getattr__(self, attr: str):
-        return RpcMethod(self, attr)
+        async def method(*args) -> Any:
+            self.id += 1
+            request_id = self.id
+
+            request = {
+                "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+                "method": attr,
+                "params": args,
+                "id": self.id,
+            }
+            data = (json.dumps(request) + "\n").encode()
+            self.process.stdin.write(data)  # noqa
+            loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+            fut = loop.create_future()
+            self.request_events[request_id] = fut
+            response = await fut
+            if "error" in response:
+                raise JsonRpcError(response["error"])
+            if "result" in response:
+                return response["result"]
+            return None
+
+        return method
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_securejoin.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_securejoin.py
@@ -1,618 +0,0 @@
-import logging
-
-import pytest
-from deltachat_rpc_client import Chat, EventType, SpecialContactId
-
-
-def test_qr_setup_contact(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    qr_code, _svg = alice.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-
-    alice.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-
-    # Test that Alice verified Bob's profile.
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.get_contact_by_addr(bob.get_config("addr"))
-    alice_contact_bob_snapshot = alice_contact_bob.get_snapshot()
-    assert alice_contact_bob_snapshot.is_verified
-
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # Test that Bob verified Alice's profile.
-    bob_contact_alice = bob.get_contact_by_addr(alice.get_config("addr"))
-    bob_contact_alice_snapshot = bob_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
-    assert bob_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified
-
-    # Test that if Bob changes the key, backwards verification is lost.
-    logging.info("Bob 2 is created")
-    bob2 = acfactory.new_configured_account()
-    bob2.export_self_keys(tmp_path)
-
-    logging.info("Bob imports a key")
-    bob.import_self_keys(tmp_path / "private-key-default.asc")
-
-    assert bob.get_config("key_id") == "2"
-    bob_contact_alice_snapshot = bob_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
-    assert not bob_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("protect", [True, False])
-def test_qr_securejoin(acfactory, protect):
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    logging.info("Alice creates a verified group")
-    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Verified group", protect=protect)
-    assert alice_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected == protect
-
-    logging.info("Bob joins verified group")
-    qr_code, _svg = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-
-    # Check that at least some of the handshake messages are deleted.
-    for ac in [alice, bob]:
-        while True:
-            event = ac.wait_for_event()
-            if event["kind"] == "ImapMessageDeleted":
-                break
-
-    alice.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-
-    # Test that Alice verified Bob's profile.
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.get_contact_by_addr(bob.get_config("addr"))
-    alice_contact_bob_snapshot = alice_contact_bob.get_snapshot()
-    assert alice_contact_bob_snapshot.is_verified
-
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Member Me ({}) added by {}.".format(bob.get_config("addr"), alice.get_config("addr"))
-    assert snapshot.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected == protect
-
-    # Test that Bob verified Alice's profile.
-    bob_contact_alice = bob.get_contact_by_addr(alice.get_config("addr"))
-    bob_contact_alice_snapshot = bob_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
-    assert bob_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified
-
-
-def test_qr_securejoin_contact_request(acfactory) -> None:
-    """Alice invites Bob to a group when Bob's chat with Alice is in a contact request mode."""
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
-
-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
-    bob_chat_alice = snapshot.chat
-    assert bob_chat_alice.get_basic_snapshot().is_contact_request
-
-    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    logging.info("Bob joins verified group")
-    qr_code, _svg = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    while True:
-        event = bob.wait_for_event()
-        if event["kind"] == "SecurejoinJoinerProgress" and event["progress"] == 1000:
-            break
-
-    # Chat stays being a contact request.
-    assert bob_chat_alice.get_basic_snapshot().is_contact_request
-
-
-def test_qr_readreceipt(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob, charlie = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-
-    logging.info("Bob and Charlie setup contact with Alice")
-    qr_code, _svg = alice.get_qr_code()
-
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    charlie.secure_join(qr_code)
-
-    for joiner in [bob, charlie]:
-        joiner.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    logging.info("Alice creates a verified group")
-    group = alice.create_group("Group", protect=True)
-
-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    charlie_addr = charlie.get_config("addr")
-
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_contact_charlie = alice.create_contact(charlie_addr, "Charlie")
-
-    group.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
-    group.add_contact(alice_contact_charlie)
-
-    # Promote a group.
-    group.send_message(text="Hello")
-
-    logging.info("Bob and Charlie receive a group")
-
-    bob_msg_id = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    bob_message = bob.get_message_by_id(bob_msg_id)
-    bob_snapshot = bob_message.get_snapshot()
-    assert bob_snapshot.text == "Hello"
-
-    # Charlie receives the same "Hello" message as Bob.
-    charlie.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-
-    logging.info("Bob sends a message to the group")
-
-    bob_out_message = bob_snapshot.chat.send_message(text="Hi from Bob!")
-
-    charlie_msg_id = charlie.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    charlie_message = charlie.get_message_by_id(charlie_msg_id)
-    charlie_snapshot = charlie_message.get_snapshot()
-    assert charlie_snapshot.text == "Hi from Bob!"
-
-    bob_contact_charlie = bob.create_contact(charlie_addr, "Charlie")
-    assert not bob.get_chat_by_contact(bob_contact_charlie)
-
-    logging.info("Charlie reads Bob's message")
-    charlie_message.mark_seen()
-
-    while True:
-        event = bob.wait_for_event()
-        if event["kind"] == "MsgRead" and event["msg_id"] == bob_out_message.id:
-            break
-
-    # Receiving a read receipt from Charlie
-    # should not unblock hidden chat with Charlie for Bob.
-    assert not bob.get_chat_by_contact(bob_contact_charlie)
-
-
-def test_setup_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:
-    """Tests that setup contact works after Alice resets the device and changes the key."""
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    qr_code, _svg = alice.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    alice = acfactory.resetup_account(alice)
-
-    qr_code, _svg = alice.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-
-def test_verified_group_recovery(acfactory) -> None:
-    """Tests verified group recovery by reverifying a member and sending a message in a group."""
-    ac1, ac2, ac3 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-
-    logging.info("ac1 creates verified group")
-    chat = ac1.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-
-    logging.info("ac2 joins verified group")
-    qr_code, _svg = chat.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # ac1 has ac2 directly verified.
-    ac1_contact_ac2 = ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr"))
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2.get_snapshot().verifier_id == SpecialContactId.SELF
-
-    logging.info("ac3 joins verified group")
-    ac3_chat = ac3.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac3.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-    ac3.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()  # Member added
-
-    logging.info("ac2 logs in on a new device")
-    ac2 = acfactory.resetup_account(ac2)
-
-    logging.info("ac2 reverifies with ac3")
-    qr_code, _svg = ac3.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    logging.info("ac3 sends a message to the group")
-    assert len(ac3_chat.get_contacts()) == 3
-    ac3_chat.send_text("Hi!")
-
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hi!"
-
-    msg_id = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    message = ac2.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hi!"
-
-    # ac1 contact is verified for ac2 because ac3 gossiped ac1 key in the "Hi!" message.
-    ac1_contact = ac2.get_contact_by_addr(ac1.get_config("addr"))
-    assert ac1_contact.get_snapshot().is_verified
-
-    # ac2 can write messages to the group.
-    snapshot.chat.send_text("Works again!")
-
-    snapshot = ac3.get_message_by_id(ac3.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Works again!"
-
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Works again!"
-
-    ac1_chat_messages = snapshot.chat.get_messages()
-    ac2_addr = ac2.get_config("addr")
-    assert ac1_chat_messages[-2].get_snapshot().text == f"Changed setup for {ac2_addr}"
-
-    # ac2 is now verified by ac3 for ac1
-    ac1_contact_ac3 = ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac3.get_config("addr"))
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2.get_snapshot().verifier_id == ac1_contact_ac3.id
-
-
-def test_verified_group_member_added_recovery(acfactory) -> None:
-    """Tests verified group recovery by reverifiying than removing and adding a member back."""
-    ac1, ac2, ac3 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-
-    logging.info("ac1 creates verified group")
-    chat = ac1.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-
-    logging.info("ac2 joins verified group")
-    qr_code, _svg = chat.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # ac1 has ac2 directly verified.
-    ac1_contact_ac2 = ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr"))
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2.get_snapshot().verifier_id == SpecialContactId.SELF
-
-    logging.info("ac3 joins verified group")
-    ac3_chat = ac3.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac3.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-    ac3.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()  # Member added
-
-    logging.info("ac2 logs in on a new device")
-    ac2 = acfactory.resetup_account(ac2)
-
-    logging.info("ac2 reverifies with ac3")
-    qr_code, _svg = ac3.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    logging.info("ac3 sends a message to the group")
-    assert len(ac3_chat.get_contacts()) == 3
-    ac3_chat.send_text("Hi!")
-
-    msg_id = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    message = ac2.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    logging.info("Received message %s", snapshot.text)
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hi!"
-
-    ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()  # Hi!
-
-    ac3_contact_ac2 = ac3.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr"))
-    ac3_chat.remove_contact(ac3_contact_ac2)
-    ac3_chat.add_contact(ac3_contact_ac2)
-
-    msg_id = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    message = ac2.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    assert "removed" in snapshot.text
-
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert "removed" in snapshot.text
-
-    event = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    chat_id = event.chat_id
-    message = ac2.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    logging.info("ac2 got event message: %s", snapshot.text)
-    assert "added" in snapshot.text
-
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert "added" in snapshot.text
-
-    chat = Chat(ac2, chat_id)
-    chat.send_text("Works again!")
-
-    msg_id = ac3.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    message = ac3.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Works again!"
-
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Works again!"
-
-    ac1_contact_ac2 = ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr"))
-    ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot = ac1_contact_ac2.get_snapshot()
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot.is_verified
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot.verifier_id == ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac3.get_config("addr")).id
-
-    # ac2 is now verified by ac3 for ac1
-    ac1_contact_ac3 = ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac3.get_config("addr"))
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2.get_snapshot().verifier_id == ac1_contact_ac3.id
-
-
-def test_qr_join_chat_with_pending_bobstate_issue4894(acfactory):
-    """Regression test for
-    issue <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/4894>.
-    """
-    ac1, ac2, ac3, ac4 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(4)
-
-    logging.info("ac3: verify with ac2")
-    qr_code, _svg = ac2.get_qr_code()
-    ac3.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-
-    # in order for ac2 to have pending bobstate with a verified group
-    # we first create a fully joined verified group, and then start
-    # joining a second time but interrupt it, to create pending bob state
-
-    logging.info("ac1: create verified group that ac2 fully joins")
-    ch1 = ac1.create_group("Group", protect=True)
-    qr_code, _svg = ch1.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac1.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-
-    # ensure ac1 can write and ac2 receives messages in verified chat
-    ch1.send_text("ac1 says hello")
-    while 1:
-        snapshot = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-        if snapshot.text == "ac1 says hello":
-            assert snapshot.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-            break
-
-    logging.info("ac1: let ac2 join again but shutoff ac1 in the middle of securejoin")
-    qr_code, _svg = ch1.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac1.remove()
-    logging.info("ac2 now has pending bobstate but ac1 is shutoff")
-
-    # we meanwhile expect ac3/ac2 verification started in the beginning to have completed
-    assert ac3.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr")).get_snapshot().is_verified
-    assert ac2.get_contact_by_addr(ac3.get_config("addr")).get_snapshot().is_verified
-
-    logging.info("ac3: create a verified group VG with ac2")
-    vg = ac3.create_group("ac3-created", protect=True)
-    vg.add_contact(ac3.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr")))
-
-    # ensure ac2 receives message in VG
-    vg.send_text("hello")
-    while 1:
-        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-        if msg.text == "hello":
-            assert msg.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-            break
-
-    logging.info("ac3: create a join-code for group VG and let ac4 join, check that ac2 got it")
-    qr_code, _svg = vg.get_qr_code()
-    ac4.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac3.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-    while 1:
-        ev = ac2.wait_for_event()
-        if "added by unrelated SecureJoin" in str(ev):
-            return
-
-
-def test_qr_new_group_unblocked(acfactory):
-    """Regression test for a bug introduced in core v1.113.0.
-    ac2 scans a verified group QR code created by ac1.
-    This results in creation of a blocked 1:1 chat with ac1 on ac2,
-    but ac1 contact is not blocked on ac2.
-    Then ac1 creates a group, adds ac2 there and promotes it by sending a message.
-    ac2 should receive a message and create a contact request for the group.
-    Due to a bug previously ac2 created a blocked group.
-    """
-
-    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-    ac1_chat = ac1.create_group("Group for joining", protect=True)
-    qr_code, _svg = ac1_chat.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-
-    ac1.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-
-    ac1_new_chat = ac1.create_group("Another group")
-    ac1_new_chat.add_contact(ac1.get_contact_by_addr(ac2.get_config("addr")))
-    # Receive "Member added" message.
-    ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-
-    ac1_new_chat.send_text("Hello!")
-    ac2_msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert ac2_msg.text == "Hello!"
-    assert ac2_msg.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_contact_request
-
-
-def test_aeap_flow_verified(acfactory):
-    """Test that a new address is added to a contact when it changes its address."""
-    ac1, ac2, ac1new = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-
-    logging.info("ac1: create verified-group QR, ac2 scans and joins")
-    chat = ac1.create_group("hello", protect=True)
-    assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-    qr_code, _svg = chat.get_qr_code()
-    logging.info("ac2: start QR-code based join-group protocol")
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac1.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
-
-    logging.info("sending first message")
-    msg_out = chat.send_text("old address").get_snapshot()
-
-    logging.info("receiving first message")
-    ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()  # member added message
-    msg_in_1 = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert msg_in_1.text == msg_out.text
-
-    logging.info("changing email account")
-    ac1.set_config("addr", ac1new.get_config("addr"))
-    ac1.set_config("mail_pw", ac1new.get_config("mail_pw"))
-    ac1.stop_io()
-    ac1.configure()
-    ac1.start_io()
-
-    logging.info("sending second message")
-    msg_out = chat.send_text("changed address").get_snapshot()
-
-    logging.info("receiving second message")
-    msg_in_2 = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id)
-    msg_in_2_snapshot = msg_in_2.get_snapshot()
-    assert msg_in_2_snapshot.text == msg_out.text
-    assert msg_in_2_snapshot.chat.id == msg_in_1.chat.id
-    assert msg_in_2.get_sender_contact().get_snapshot().address == ac1new.get_config("addr")
-    assert len(msg_in_2_snapshot.chat.get_contacts()) == 2
-    assert ac1new.get_config("addr") in [
-        contact.get_snapshot().address for contact in msg_in_2_snapshot.chat.get_contacts()
-    ]
-
-
-def test_gossip_verification(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob, carol = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-
-    # Bob verifies Alice.
-    qr_code, _svg = alice.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # Bob verifies Carol.
-    qr_code, _svg = carol.get_qr_code()
-    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    bob_contact_alice = bob.create_contact(alice.get_config("addr"), "Alice")
-    bob_contact_carol = bob.create_contact(carol.get_config("addr"), "Carol")
-    carol_contact_alice = carol.create_contact(alice.get_config("addr"), "Alice")
-
-    logging.info("Bob creates an Autocrypt group")
-    bob_group_chat = bob.create_group("Autocrypt Group")
-    assert not bob_group_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_alice)
-    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_carol)
-    bob_group_chat.send_message(text="Hello Autocrypt group")
-
-    snapshot = carol.get_message_by_id(carol.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Autocrypt group"
-    assert snapshot.show_padlock
-
-    # Autocrypt group does not propagate verification.
-    carol_contact_alice_snapshot = carol_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
-    assert not carol_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified
-
-    logging.info("Bob creates a Securejoin group")
-    bob_group_chat = bob.create_group("Securejoin Group", protect=True)
-    assert bob_group_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_alice)
-    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_carol)
-    bob_group_chat.send_message(text="Hello Securejoin group")
-
-    snapshot = carol.get_message_by_id(carol.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Securejoin group"
-    assert snapshot.show_padlock
-
-    # Securejoin propagates verification.
-    carol_contact_alice_snapshot = carol_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
-    assert carol_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified
-
-
-def test_securejoin_after_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:
-    """
-    Regression test for a bug that prevented joining verified group with a QR code
-    if the group is already created and contains
-    a contact with inconsistent (Autocrypt and verified keys exist but don't match) key state.
-    """
-    ac1, ac2, ac3 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-
-    # ac3 creates protected group with ac1.
-    ac3_chat = ac3.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-
-    # ac1 joins ac3 group.
-    ac3_qr_code, _svg = ac3_chat.get_qr_code()
-    ac1.secure_join(ac3_qr_code)
-    ac1.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # ac1 waits for member added message and creates a QR code.
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    ac1_qr_code, _svg = snapshot.chat.get_qr_code()
-
-    # ac2 verifies ac1
-    qr_code, _svg = ac1.get_qr_code()
-    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # ac1 is verified for ac2.
-    ac2_contact_ac1 = ac2.create_contact(ac1.get_config("addr"), "")
-    assert ac2_contact_ac1.get_snapshot().is_verified
-
-    # ac1 resetups the account.
-    ac1 = acfactory.resetup_account(ac1)
-
-    # ac1 sends a message to ac2.
-    ac1_contact_ac2 = ac1.create_contact(ac2.get_config("addr"), "")
-    ac1_chat_ac2 = ac1_contact_ac2.create_chat()
-    ac1_chat_ac2.send_text("Hello!")
-
-    # ac2 receives a message.
-    snapshot = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
-
-    # ac1 is no longer verified for ac2 as new Autocrypt key is not the same as old verified key.
-    assert not ac2_contact_ac1.get_snapshot().is_verified
-
-    # ac1 goes offline.
-    ac1.remove()
-
-    # Scanning a QR code results in creating an unprotected group with an inviter.
-    # In this case inviter is ac1 which has an inconsistent key state.
-    # Normally inviter becomes verified as a result of Securejoin protocol
-    # and then the group chat becomes verified when "Member added" is received,
-    # but in this case ac1 is offline and this Securejoin process will never finish.
-    logging.info("ac2 scans ac1 QR code, this is not expected to finish")
-    ac2.secure_join(ac1_qr_code)
-
-    logging.info("ac2 scans ac3 QR code")
-    ac2.secure_join(ac3_qr_code)
-
-    logging.info("ac2 waits for joiner success")
-    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    # Wait for member added.
-    logging.info("ac2 waits for member added message")
-    snapshot = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.is_info
-    ac2_chat = snapshot.chat
-    assert ac2_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-    assert len(ac2_chat.get_contacts()) == 3
-
-    # ac1 is still "not verified" for ac2 due to inconsistent state.
-    assert not ac2_contact_ac1.get_snapshot().is_verified
-
-
-def test_withdraw_securejoin_qr(acfactory):
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    logging.info("Alice creates a verified group")
-    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    assert alice_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-    logging.info("Bob joins verified group")
-
-    qr_code, _svg = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
-    bob_chat = bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
-
-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Member Me ({}) added by {}.".format(bob.get_config("addr"), alice.get_config("addr"))
-    assert snapshot.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
-    bob_chat.leave()
-
-    snapshot = alice.get_message_by_id(alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Group left by {}.".format(bob.get_config("addr"))
-
-    logging.info("Alice withdraws QR code.")
-    qr = alice.check_qr(qr_code)
-    assert qr["kind"] == "withdrawVerifyGroup"
-    alice.set_config_from_qr(qr_code)
-
-    logging.info("Bob scans withdrawn QR code.")
-    bob_chat = bob.secure_join(qr_code)
-
-    logging.info("Bob scanned withdrawn QR code")
-    while True:
-        event = alice.wait_for_event()
-        if event.kind == EventType.MSGS_CHANGED and event.chat_id != 0:
-            break
-    snapshot = alice.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Cannot establish guaranteed end-to-end encryption with {}".format(bob.get_config("addr"))
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import concurrent.futures
+import asyncio
 import json
 import subprocess
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
@@ -8,26 +8,26 @@ from deltachat_rpc_client import EventType, events
 from deltachat_rpc_client.rpc import JsonRpcError


-def test_system_info(rpc) -> None:
-    system_info = rpc.get_system_info()
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_system_info(rpc) -> None:
+    system_info = await rpc.get_system_info()
    assert "arch" in system_info
    assert "deltachat_core_version" in system_info


-def test_sleep(rpc) -> None:
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_sleep(rpc) -> None:
    """Test that long-running task does not block short-running task from completion."""
-    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=5) as executor:
-        sleep_5_future = executor.submit(rpc.sleep, 5.0)
-        sleep_3_future = executor.submit(rpc.sleep, 3.0)
-        done, pending = concurrent.futures.wait(
-            [sleep_5_future, sleep_3_future],
-            return_when=concurrent.futures.FIRST_COMPLETED,
-        )
-        assert sleep_3_future in done
-        assert sleep_5_future in pending
+    sleep_5_task = asyncio.create_task(rpc.sleep(5.0))
+    sleep_3_task = asyncio.create_task(rpc.sleep(3.0))
+    done, pending = await asyncio.wait([sleep_5_task, sleep_3_task], return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED)
+    assert sleep_3_task in done
+    assert sleep_5_task in pending
+    sleep_5_task.cancel()


-def test_email_address_validity(rpc) -> None:
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_email_address_validity(rpc) -> None:
    valid_addresses = [
        "email@example.com",
        "36aa165ae3406424e0c61af17700f397cad3fe8ab83d682d0bddf3338a5dd52e@yggmail@yggmail",
@@ -35,15 +35,16 @@ def test_email_address_validity(rpc) -> None:
    invalid_addresses = ["email@", "example.com", "emai221"]

    for addr in valid_addresses:
-        assert rpc.check_email_validity(addr)
+        assert await rpc.check_email_validity(addr)
    for addr in invalid_addresses:
-        assert not rpc.check_email_validity(addr)
+        assert not await rpc.check_email_validity(addr)


-def test_acfactory(acfactory) -> None:
-    account = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_acfactory(acfactory) -> None:
+    account = await acfactory.new_configured_account()
    while True:
-        event = account.wait_for_event()
+        event = await account.wait_for_event()
        if event.kind == EventType.CONFIGURE_PROGRESS:
            assert event.progress != 0  # Progress 0 indicates error.
            if event.progress == 1000:  # Success
@@ -53,235 +54,248 @@ def test_acfactory(acfactory) -> None:
    print("Successful configuration")


-def test_configure_starttls(acfactory) -> None:
-    account = acfactory.new_preconfigured_account()
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_configure_starttls(acfactory) -> None:
+    account = await acfactory.new_preconfigured_account()

    # Use STARTTLS
-    account.set_config("mail_security", "2")
-    account.set_config("send_security", "2")
-    account.configure()
-    assert account.is_configured()
+    await account.set_config("mail_security", "2")
+    await account.set_config("send_security", "2")
+    await account.configure()
+    assert await account.is_configured()


-def test_account(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_account(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = await acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+    bob_addr = await bob.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bob = await alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = await alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    await alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")

    while True:
-        event = bob.wait_for_event()
+        event = await bob.wait_for_event()
        if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
            chat_id = event.chat_id
            msg_id = event.msg_id
            break

    message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.chat_id == chat_id
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
-    bob.mark_seen_messages([message])
+    await bob.mark_seen_messages([message])

    assert alice != bob
    assert repr(alice)
-    assert alice.get_info().level
-    assert alice.get_size()
-    assert alice.is_configured()
-    assert not alice.get_avatar()
-    assert alice.get_contact_by_addr(bob_addr) == alice_contact_bob
-    assert alice.get_contacts()
-    assert alice.get_contacts(snapshot=True)
+    assert (await alice.get_info()).level
+    assert await alice.get_size()
+    assert await alice.is_configured()
+    assert not await alice.get_avatar()
+    assert await alice.get_contact_by_addr(bob_addr) == alice_contact_bob
+    assert await alice.get_contacts()
+    assert await alice.get_contacts(snapshot=True)
    assert alice.self_contact
-    assert alice.get_chatlist()
-    assert alice.get_chatlist(snapshot=True)
-    assert alice.get_qr_code()
-    assert alice.get_fresh_messages()
-    assert alice.get_next_messages()
+    assert await alice.get_chatlist()
+    assert await alice.get_chatlist(snapshot=True)
+    assert await alice.get_qr_code()
+    assert await alice.get_fresh_messages()
+    assert await alice.get_next_messages()

    # Test sending empty message.
-    assert len(bob.wait_next_messages()) == 0
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("")
-    messages = bob.wait_next_messages()
+    assert len(await bob.wait_next_messages()) == 0
+    await alice_chat_bob.send_text("")
+    messages = await bob.wait_next_messages()
    assert len(messages) == 1
    message = messages[0]
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == ""
-    bob.mark_seen_messages([message])
+    await bob.mark_seen_messages([message])

-    group = alice.create_group("test group")
-    group.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
-    group_msg = group.send_message(text="hello")
+    group = await alice.create_group("test group")
+    await group.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
+    group_msg = await group.send_message(text="hello")
    assert group_msg == alice.get_message_by_id(group_msg.id)
    assert group == alice.get_chat_by_id(group.id)
-    alice.delete_messages([group_msg])
+    await alice.delete_messages([group_msg])

-    alice.set_config("selfstatus", "test")
-    assert alice.get_config("selfstatus") == "test"
-    alice.update_config(selfstatus="test2")
-    assert alice.get_config("selfstatus") == "test2"
+    await alice.set_config("selfstatus", "test")
+    assert await alice.get_config("selfstatus") == "test"
+    await alice.update_config(selfstatus="test2")
+    assert await alice.get_config("selfstatus") == "test2"

-    assert not alice.get_blocked_contacts()
-    alice_contact_bob.block()
-    blocked_contacts = alice.get_blocked_contacts()
+    assert not await alice.get_blocked_contacts()
+    await alice_contact_bob.block()
+    blocked_contacts = await alice.get_blocked_contacts()
    assert blocked_contacts
    assert blocked_contacts[0].contact == alice_contact_bob

-    bob.remove()
-    alice.stop_io()
+    await bob.remove()
+    await alice.stop_io()


-def test_chat(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_chat(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = await acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+    bob_addr = await bob.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bob = await alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = await alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    await alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")

-    event = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    chat_id = event.chat_id
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
+    while True:
+        event = await bob.wait_for_event()
+        if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
+            chat_id = event.chat_id
+            msg_id = event.msg_id
+            break
    message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.chat_id == chat_id
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
    bob_chat_alice = bob.get_chat_by_id(chat_id)

    assert alice_chat_bob != bob_chat_alice
    assert repr(alice_chat_bob)
-    alice_chat_bob.delete()
-    assert not bob_chat_alice.can_send()
-    bob_chat_alice.accept()
-    assert bob_chat_alice.can_send()
-    bob_chat_alice.block()
-    bob_chat_alice = snapshot.sender.create_chat()
-    bob_chat_alice.mute()
-    bob_chat_alice.unmute()
-    bob_chat_alice.pin()
-    bob_chat_alice.unpin()
-    bob_chat_alice.archive()
-    bob_chat_alice.unarchive()
+    await alice_chat_bob.delete()
+    assert not await bob_chat_alice.can_send()
+    await bob_chat_alice.accept()
+    assert await bob_chat_alice.can_send()
+    await bob_chat_alice.block()
+    bob_chat_alice = await snapshot.sender.create_chat()
+    await bob_chat_alice.mute()
+    await bob_chat_alice.unmute()
+    await bob_chat_alice.pin()
+    await bob_chat_alice.unpin()
+    await bob_chat_alice.archive()
+    await bob_chat_alice.unarchive()
    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):  # can't set name for 1:1 chats
-        bob_chat_alice.set_name("test")
-    bob_chat_alice.set_ephemeral_timer(300)
-    bob_chat_alice.get_encryption_info()
+        await bob_chat_alice.set_name("test")
+    await bob_chat_alice.set_ephemeral_timer(300)
+    await bob_chat_alice.get_encryption_info()

-    group = alice.create_group("test group")
-    group.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
-    group.get_qr_code()
+    group = await alice.create_group("test group")
+    await group.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
+    await group.get_qr_code()

-    snapshot = group.get_basic_snapshot()
+    snapshot = await group.get_basic_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.name == "test group"
-    group.set_name("new name")
-    snapshot = group.get_full_snapshot()
+    await group.set_name("new name")
+    snapshot = await group.get_full_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.name == "new name"

-    msg = group.send_message(text="hi")
-    assert (msg.get_snapshot()).text == "hi"
-    group.forward_messages([msg])
+    msg = await group.send_message(text="hi")
+    assert (await msg.get_snapshot()).text == "hi"
+    await group.forward_messages([msg])

-    group.set_draft(text="test draft")
-    draft = group.get_draft()
+    await group.set_draft(text="test draft")
+    draft = await group.get_draft()
    assert draft.text == "test draft"
-    group.remove_draft()
-    assert not group.get_draft()
+    await group.remove_draft()
+    assert not await group.get_draft()

-    assert group.get_messages()
-    group.get_fresh_message_count()
-    group.mark_noticed()
-    assert group.get_contacts()
-    group.remove_contact(alice_chat_bob)
-    group.get_locations()
+    assert await group.get_messages()
+    await group.get_fresh_message_count()
+    await group.mark_noticed()
+    assert await group.get_contacts()
+    await group.remove_contact(alice_chat_bob)
+    await group.get_locations()


-def test_contact(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_contact(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = await acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
+    bob_addr = await bob.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bob = await alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")

    assert alice_contact_bob == alice.get_contact_by_id(alice_contact_bob.id)
    assert repr(alice_contact_bob)
-    alice_contact_bob.block()
-    alice_contact_bob.unblock()
-    alice_contact_bob.set_name("new name")
-    alice_contact_bob.get_encryption_info()
-    snapshot = alice_contact_bob.get_snapshot()
+    await alice_contact_bob.block()
+    await alice_contact_bob.unblock()
+    await alice_contact_bob.set_name("new name")
+    await alice_contact_bob.get_encryption_info()
+    snapshot = await alice_contact_bob.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.address == bob_addr
-    alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    await alice_contact_bob.create_chat()


-def test_message(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_message(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = await acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+    bob_addr = await bob.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bob = await alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = await alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    await alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")

-    event = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    chat_id = event.chat_id
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
+    while True:
+        event = await bob.wait_for_event()
+        if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
+            chat_id = event.chat_id
+            msg_id = event.msg_id
+            break

    message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.chat_id == chat_id
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
    assert not snapshot.is_bot
    assert repr(message)

    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):  # chat is not accepted
-        snapshot.chat.send_text("hi")
-    snapshot.chat.accept()
-    snapshot.chat.send_text("hi")
+        await snapshot.chat.send_text("hi")
+    await snapshot.chat.accept()
+    await snapshot.chat.send_text("hi")

-    message.mark_seen()
-    message.send_reaction("😎")
-    reactions = message.get_reactions()
+    await message.mark_seen()
+    await message.send_reaction("😎")
+    reactions = await message.get_reactions()
    assert reactions
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
    assert reactions == snapshot.reactions


-def test_is_bot(acfactory) -> None:
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_is_bot(acfactory) -> None:
    """Test that we can recognize messages submitted by bots."""
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    alice, bob = await acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    bob_addr = await bob.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bob = await alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = await alice_contact_bob.create_chat()

    # Alice becomes a bot.
-    alice.set_config("bot", "1")
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+    await alice.set_config("bot", "1")
+    await alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")

    while True:
-        event = bob.wait_for_event()
+        event = await bob.wait_for_event()
        if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
            msg_id = event.msg_id
            message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-            snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+            snapshot = await message.get_snapshot()
            assert snapshot.chat_id == event.chat_id
            assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
            assert snapshot.is_bot
            break


-def test_bot(acfactory) -> None:
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_bot(acfactory) -> None:
    mock = MagicMock()
-    user = (acfactory.get_online_accounts(1))[0]
-    bot = acfactory.new_configured_bot()
-    bot2 = acfactory.new_configured_bot()
+    user = (await acfactory.get_online_accounts(1))[0]
+    bot = await acfactory.new_configured_bot()
+    bot2 = await acfactory.new_configured_bot()

-    assert bot.is_configured()
-    assert bot.account.get_config("bot") == "1"
+    assert await bot.is_configured()
+    assert await bot.account.get_config("bot") == "1"

    hook = lambda e: mock.hook(e.msg_id) and None, events.RawEvent(EventType.INCOMING_MSG)
    bot.add_hook(*hook)
-    event = acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="Hello!")
-    snapshot = bot.account.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    event = await acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="Hello!")
+    snapshot = await bot.account.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id).get_snapshot()
    assert not snapshot.is_bot
    mock.hook.assert_called_once_with(event.msg_id)
    bot.remove_hook(*hook)
@@ -293,82 +307,58 @@ def test_bot(acfactory) -> None:
    hook = track, events.NewMessage(r"hello")
    bot.add_hook(*hook)
    bot.add_hook(track, events.NewMessage(command="/help"))
-    event = acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hello")
+    event = await acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hello")
    mock.hook.assert_called_with(event.msg_id)
-    event = acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hello!")
+    event = await acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hello!")
    mock.hook.assert_called_with(event.msg_id)
-    acfactory.process_message(from_account=bot2.account, to_client=bot, text="hello")
+    await acfactory.process_message(from_account=bot2.account, to_client=bot, text="hello")
    assert len(mock.hook.mock_calls) == 2  # bot messages are ignored between bots
-    acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hey!")
+    await acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hey!")
    assert len(mock.hook.mock_calls) == 2
    bot.remove_hook(*hook)

    mock.hook.reset_mock()
-    acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hello")
-    event = acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="/help")
+    await acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="hello")
+    event = await acfactory.process_message(from_account=user, to_client=bot, text="/help")
    mock.hook.assert_called_once_with(event.msg_id)


-def test_wait_next_messages(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_wait_next_messages(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice = await acfactory.new_configured_account()

    # Create a bot account so it does not receive device messages in the beginning.
-    bot = acfactory.new_preconfigured_account()
-    bot.set_config("bot", "1")
-    bot.configure()
+    bot = await acfactory.new_preconfigured_account()
+    await bot.set_config("bot", "1")
+    await bot.configure()

    # There are no old messages and the call returns immediately.
-    assert not bot.wait_next_messages()
+    assert not await bot.wait_next_messages()

-    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as executor:
-        # Bot starts waiting for messages.
-        next_messages_task = executor.submit(bot.wait_next_messages)
+    # Bot starts waiting for messages.
+    next_messages_task = asyncio.create_task(bot.wait_next_messages())

-        bot_addr = bot.get_config("addr")
-        alice_contact_bot = alice.create_contact(bot_addr, "Bot")
-        alice_chat_bot = alice_contact_bot.create_chat()
-        alice_chat_bot.send_text("Hello!")
+    bot_addr = await bot.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bot = await alice.create_contact(bot_addr, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bot = await alice_contact_bot.create_chat()
+    await alice_chat_bot.send_text("Hello!")

-        next_messages = next_messages_task.result()
-        assert len(next_messages) == 1
-        snapshot = next_messages[0].get_snapshot()
-        assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
+    next_messages = await next_messages_task
+    assert len(next_messages) == 1
+    snapshot = await next_messages[0].get_snapshot()
+    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"


-def test_import_export_backup(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
-    alice = acfactory.new_configured_account()
-    alice.export_backup(tmp_path)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_import_export(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
+    alice = await acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    await alice.export_backup(tmp_path)

    files = list(tmp_path.glob("*.tar"))
-    alice2 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
-    alice2.import_backup(files[0])
+    alice2 = await acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
+    await alice2.import_backup(files[0])

-    assert alice2.manager.get_system_info()
-
-
-def test_import_export_keys(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello Bob!")
-
-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Bob!"
-
-    # Alice resetups account, but keeps the key.
-    alice_keys_path = tmp_path / "alice_keys"
-    alice_keys_path.mkdir()
-    alice.export_self_keys(alice_keys_path)
-    alice = acfactory.resetup_account(alice)
-    alice.import_self_keys(alice_keys_path)
-
-    snapshot.chat.accept()
-    snapshot.chat.send_text("Hello Alice!")
-    snapshot = alice.get_message_by_id(alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Alice!"
-    assert snapshot.show_padlock
+    assert await alice2.manager.get_system_info()


 def test_openrpc_command_line() -> None:
@@ -377,65 +367,3 @@ def test_openrpc_command_line() -> None:
    openrpc = json.loads(out)
    assert "openrpc" in openrpc
    assert "methods" in openrpc
-
-
-def test_provider_info(rpc) -> None:
-    account_id = rpc.add_account()
-
-    provider_info = rpc.get_provider_info(account_id, "example.org")
-    assert provider_info["id"] == "example.com"
-
-    provider_info = rpc.get_provider_info(account_id, "uep7oiw4ahtaizuloith.org")
-    assert provider_info is None
-
-    # Test MX record resolution.
-    provider_info = rpc.get_provider_info(account_id, "github.com")
-    assert provider_info["id"] == "gmail"
-
-    # Disable MX record resolution.
-    rpc.set_config(account_id, "socks5_enabled", "1")
-    provider_info = rpc.get_provider_info(account_id, "github.com")
-    assert provider_info is None
-
-
-def test_mdn_doesnt_break_autocrypt(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-
-    # Bob creates chat manually so chat with Alice is accepted.
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-
-    # Alice sends a message to Bob.
-    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello Bob!")
-    event = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-
-    # Bob sends a message to Alice.
-    bob_chat_alice = snapshot.chat
-    bob_chat_alice.accept()
-    bob_chat_alice.send_text("Hello Alice!")
-    event = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    message = alice.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.show_padlock
-
-    # Alice reads Bob's message.
-    message.mark_seen()
-    while True:
-        event = bob.wait_for_event()
-        if event.kind == EventType.MSG_READ:
-            break
-
-    # Bob sends a message to Alice, it should also be encrypted.
-    bob_chat_alice.send_text("Hi Alice!")
-    event = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    message = alice.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.show_padlock
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_webxdc.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_webxdc.py
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
+import pytest
 from deltachat_rpc_client import EventType


-def test_webxdc(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_webxdc(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = await acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    alice_chat_bob.send_message(text="Let's play chess!", file="../test-data/webxdc/chess.xdc")
+    bob_addr = await bob.get_config("addr")
+    alice_contact_bob = await alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = await alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    await alice_chat_bob.send_message(text="Let's play chess!", file="../test-data/webxdc/chess.xdc")

    while True:
-        event = bob.wait_for_event()
+        event = await bob.wait_for_event()
        if event.kind == EventType.INCOMING_MSG:
            bob_chat_alice = bob.get_chat_by_id(event.chat_id)
            message = bob.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id)
            break

-    webxdc_info = message.get_webxdc_info()
+    webxdc_info = await message.get_webxdc_info()
    assert webxdc_info == {
        "document": None,
        "icon": "icon.png",
@@ -26,32 +28,20 @@ def test_webxdc(acfactory) -> None:
        "summary": None,
    }

-    status_updates = message.get_webxdc_status_updates()
+    status_updates = await message.get_webxdc_status_updates()
    assert status_updates == []

-    bob_chat_alice.accept()
-    message.send_webxdc_status_update({"payload": 42}, "")
-    message.send_webxdc_status_update({"payload": "Second update"}, "description")
+    await bob_chat_alice.accept()
+    await message.send_webxdc_status_update({"payload": 42}, "")
+    await message.send_webxdc_status_update({"payload": "Second update"}, "description")

-    status_updates = message.get_webxdc_status_updates()
+    status_updates = await message.get_webxdc_status_updates()
    assert status_updates == [
        {"payload": 42, "serial": 1, "max_serial": 2},
        {"payload": "Second update", "serial": 2, "max_serial": 2},
    ]

-    status_updates = message.get_webxdc_status_updates(1)
+    status_updates = await message.get_webxdc_status_updates(1)
    assert status_updates == [
        {"payload": "Second update", "serial": 2, "max_serial": 2},
    ]
-
-
-def test_webxdc_insert_lots_of_updates(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-
-    bob_addr = bob.get_config("addr")
-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob_addr, "Bob")
-    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
-    message = alice_chat_bob.send_message(text="Let's play chess!", file="../test-data/webxdc/chess.xdc")
-
-    for i in range(2000):
-        message.send_webxdc_status_update({"payload": str(i)}, "description")
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tox.ini
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tox.ini
@@ -6,16 +6,18 @@ envlist =

 [testenv]
 commands =
-    pytest -n6 {posargs}
+    pytest {posargs}
 setenv =
 # Avoid stack overflow when Rust core is built without optimizations.
    RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608
 passenv =
-    CHATMAIL_DOMAIN
+    DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL
 deps =
    pytest
+    pytest-asyncio
    pytest-timeout
-    pytest-xdist
+    aiohttp
+    aiodns

 [testenv:lint]
 skipsdist = True
@@ -28,6 +30,4 @@ commands =
    ruff src/ examples/ tests/

 [pytest]
-timeout = 300
-log_cli = true
-log_level = debug
+timeout = 60
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "1.137.2"
+version = "1.123.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC server"
 edition = "2021"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ deltachat = { path = "..", default-features = false }

 anyhow = "1"
 env_logger = { version = "0.10.0" }
-futures-lite = "2.3.0"
+futures-lite = "1.13.0"
 log = "0.4"
-serde_json = "1"
+serde_json = "1.0.105"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["io-std"] }
-tokio-util = "0.7.9"
+tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = ["io-std"] }
+tokio-util = "0.7.8"
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }

 [features]
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/README.md
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ deltachat-rpc-server
 The common use case for this program is to create bindings to use Delta Chat core from programming
 languages other than Rust, for example:

-1. Python: https://pypi.org/project/deltachat-rpc-client/
+1. Python: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/master/deltachat-rpc-client/
 2. Go: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go/

 Run `deltachat-rpc-server --version` to check the version of the server.
--- a/deltachat-time/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-time/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[package]
-name = "deltachat-time"
-version = "1.0.0"
-description = "Time-related tools"
-edition = "2021"
-license = "MPL-2.0"
-
-[dependencies]
--- a/deltachat-time/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-time/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#![allow(missing_docs)]
-
-use std::sync::RwLock;
-use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};
-
-static SYSTEM_TIME_SHIFT: RwLock<Duration> = RwLock::new(Duration::new(0, 0));
-
-/// Fake struct for mocking `SystemTime::now()` for test purposes. You still need to use
-/// `SystemTime` as a struct representing a system time.
-pub struct SystemTimeTools();
-
-impl SystemTimeTools {
-    pub const UNIX_EPOCH: SystemTime = SystemTime::UNIX_EPOCH;
-
-    pub fn now() -> SystemTime {
-        return SystemTime::now() + *SYSTEM_TIME_SHIFT.read().unwrap();
-    }
-
-    /// Simulates a system clock forward adjustment by `duration`.
-    pub fn shift(duration: Duration) {
-        *SYSTEM_TIME_SHIFT.write().unwrap() += duration;
-    }
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use super::*;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn it_works() {
-        SystemTimeTools::shift(Duration::from_secs(60));
-        let t = SystemTimeTools::now();
-        assert!(t > SystemTime::now());
-    }
-}
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -1,20 +1,8 @@
 [advisories]
+unmaintained = "allow"
 ignore = [
    "RUSTSEC-2020-0071",
    "RUSTSEC-2022-0093",
-
-    # Timing attack on RSA.
-    # Delta Chat does not use RSA for new keys
-    # and this requires precise measurement of the decryption time by the attacker.
-    # There is no fix at the time of writing this (2023-11-28).
-    # <https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0071>
-    "RUSTSEC-2023-0071",
-
-    # Unmaintained ansi_term
-    "RUSTSEC-2021-0139",
-
-    # Unmaintained encoding
-    "RUSTSEC-2021-0153",
 ]

 [bans]
@@ -23,7 +11,6 @@ ignore = [
 # when upgrading.
 # Please keep this list alphabetically sorted.
 skip = [
-     { name = "async-channel", version = "1.9.0" },
     { name = "base16ct", version = "0.1.1" },
     { name = "base64", version = "<0.21" },
     { name = "bitflags", version = "1.3.2" },
@@ -37,41 +24,38 @@ skip = [
     { name = "digest", version = "<0.10" },
     { name = "ed25519-dalek", version = "1.0.1" },
     { name = "ed25519", version = "1.5.3" },
-     { name = "event-listener", version = "2.5.3" },
+     { name = "fastrand", version = "1.9.0" },
     { name = "getrandom", version = "<0.2" },
-     { name = "idna", version = "0.4.0" },
+     { name = "hashbrown", version = "<0.14.0" },
+     { name = "indexmap", version = "<2.0.0" },
     { name = "pem-rfc7468", version = "0.6.0" },
     { name = "pkcs8", version = "0.9.0" },
     { name = "quick-error", version = "<2.0" },
     { name = "rand_chacha", version = "<0.3" },
     { name = "rand_core", version = "<0.6" },
     { name = "rand", version = "<0.8" },
-     { name = "redox_syscall", version = "0.3.5" },
+     { name = "redox_syscall", version = "0.2.16" },
     { name = "regex-automata", version = "0.1.10" },
     { name = "regex-syntax", version = "0.6.29" },
-     { name = "ring", version = "0.16.20" },
     { name = "sec1", version = "0.3.0" },
     { name = "sha2", version = "<0.10" },
     { name = "signature", version = "1.6.4" },
+     { name = "socket2", version = "0.4.9" },
     { name = "spin", version = "<0.9.6" },
     { name = "spki", version = "0.6.0" },
-     { name = "sync_wrapper", version = "0.1.2" },
     { name = "syn", version = "1.0.109" },
     { name = "time", version = "<0.3" },
-     { name = "toml_edit", version = "0.21.1" },
-     { name = "untrusted", version = "0.7.1" },
     { name = "wasi", version = "<0.11" },
-     { name = "windows_aarch64_gnullvm", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows_aarch64_msvc", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows_i686_gnu", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows_i686_msvc", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows-sys", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows-targets", version = "<0.52" },
+     { name = "windows_aarch64_gnullvm", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows_aarch64_msvc", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows_i686_gnu", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows_i686_msvc", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows-sys", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows-targets", version = "<0.48" },
     { name = "windows", version = "0.32.0" },
-     { name = "windows_x86_64_gnullvm", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows_x86_64_gnu", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "windows_x86_64_msvc", version = "<0.52" },
-     { name = "winnow", version = "0.5.40" },
+     { name = "windows_x86_64_gnullvm", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows_x86_64_gnu", version = "<0.48" },
+     { name = "windows_x86_64_msvc", version = "<0.48" },
 ]


@@ -103,4 +87,5 @@ license-files = [
 github = [
       "async-email",
       "deltachat",
+       "quinn-rs",
 ]
--- a/draft/aeap-mvp.md
+++ b/draft/aeap-mvp.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Note that usually a mail is signed by a key that has a UID matching the from add
 ### Notes:
  
 - We treat protected and non-protected chats the same
- We leave the aeap transition statement away since it seems not to be needed, makes things harder on the sending side, wastes some network traffic, and is worse for privacy (since more people know what old addresses you had).
+- We leave the aeap transition statement away since it seems not to be needed, makes things harder on the sending side, wastes some network traffic, and is worse for privacy (since more pepole know what old addresses you had).
 - As soon as we encrypt read receipts, sending a read receipt will be enough to tell a lot of people that you transitioned
 - AEAP will make the problem of inconsistent group state worse, both because it doesn't work if the message is unencrypted (even if the design allowed it, it would be problematic security-wise) and because some chat partners may have gotten the transition and some not. We should do something against this at some point in the future, like asking the user whether they want to add/remove the members to restore consistent group state.

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ The most obvious alternative would be to create a new contact with the new addre
 #### Upsides:
 - With this approach, it's easier to switch to a model where the info about the transition is encoded in the PGP key. Since the key is gossiped, the information about the transition will spread virally.
 - (Also, less important: Slightly faster transition: If you send a message to e.g. "Delta Chat Dev", all members of the "sub-group" "delta android" will know of your transition.)
- It's easier to implement (if too many problems turn up, we can still switch to another approach and didn't waste that much development time.)
+- It's easier to implement (if too many problems turn up, we can still switch to another approach and didn't wast that much development time.)

 [full messages](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/2896#discussion_r852002161)
  
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -1,288 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "nodes": {
-    "android": {
-      "inputs": {
-        "devshell": "devshell",
-        "flake-utils": "flake-utils_2",
-        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
-      },
-      "locked": {
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-        "narHash": "sha256-yemnwSvW7cdWtXGpivFA5jDO35rGPs6fqxlQ4l6ODXs=",
-        "owner": "tadfisher",
-        "repo": "android-nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "e91fb3d8517538e5ad9b422c9a4f604b56008a9e",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "tadfisher",
-        "repo": "android-nixpkgs",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "devshell": {
-      "inputs": {
-        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
-        "nixpkgs": [
-          "android",
-          "nixpkgs"
-        ]
-      },
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1708939976,
-        "narHash": "sha256-O5+nFozxz2Vubpdl1YZtPrilcIXPcRAjqNdNE8oCRoA=",
-        "owner": "numtide",
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-        "rev": "5ddecd67edbd568ebe0a55905273e56cc82aabe3",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "numtide",
-        "repo": "devshell",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "fenix": {
-      "inputs": {
-        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs_2",
-        "rust-analyzer-src": "rust-analyzer-src"
-      },
-      "locked": {
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-        "narHash": "sha256-W0PQCe0bW3hKF5lHawXrKynBcdSP18Qa4sb8DcUfOqI=",
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-      "original": {
-        "owner": "NixOS",
-        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "nixpkgs_2": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1710631334,
-        "narHash": "sha256-rL5LSYd85kplL5othxK5lmAtjyMOBg390sGBTb3LRMM=",
-        "owner": "nixos",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "c75037bbf9093a2acb617804ee46320d6d1fea5a",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "nixos",
-        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "nixpkgs_3": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1710765496,
-        "narHash": "sha256-p7ryWEeQfMwTB6E0wIUd5V2cFTgq+DRRBz2hYGnJZyA=",
-        "owner": "NixOS",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "e367f7a1fb93137af22a3908f00b9a35e2d286a7",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "id": "nixpkgs",
-        "type": "indirect"
-      }
-    },
-    "nixpkgs_4": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1710631334,
-        "narHash": "sha256-rL5LSYd85kplL5othxK5lmAtjyMOBg390sGBTb3LRMM=",
-        "owner": "nixos",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "c75037bbf9093a2acb617804ee46320d6d1fea5a",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "nixos",
-        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "root": {
-      "inputs": {
-        "android": "android",
-        "fenix": "fenix",
-        "flake-utils": "flake-utils_3",
-        "naersk": "naersk",
-        "nix-filter": "nix-filter",
-        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs_4"
-      }
-    },
-    "rust-analyzer-src": {
-      "flake": false,
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1710708100,
-        "narHash": "sha256-Jd6pmXlwKk5uYcjyO/8BfbUVmx8g31Qfk7auI2IG66A=",
-        "owner": "rust-lang",
-        "repo": "rust-analyzer",
-        "rev": "b6d1887bc4f9543b6c6bf098179a62446f34a6c3",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "rust-lang",
-        "ref": "nightly",
-        "repo": "rust-analyzer",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "systems": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1681028828,
-        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "systems_2": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1681028828,
-        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "systems_3": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1681028828,
-        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "root": "root",
-  "version": 7
-}
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -1,542 +0,0 @@
-{
-  description = "Delta Chat core";
-  inputs = {
-    fenix.url = "github:nix-community/fenix";
-    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
-    naersk.url = "github:nix-community/naersk";
-    nix-filter.url = "github:numtide/nix-filter";
-    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
-    android.url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs";
-  };
-  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils, nix-filter, naersk, fenix, android }:
-    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
-      let
-        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
-        inherit (pkgs.stdenv) isDarwin;
-        fenixPkgs = fenix.packages.${system};
-        naersk' = pkgs.callPackage naersk { };
-        manifest = (pkgs.lib.importTOML ./Cargo.toml).package;
-        androidSdk = android.sdk.${system} (sdkPkgs:
-          builtins.attrValues {
-            inherit (sdkPkgs) ndk-24-0-8215888 cmdline-tools-latest;
-          });
-        androidNdkRoot = "${androidSdk}/share/android-sdk/ndk/24.0.8215888";
-
-        rustSrc = nix-filter.lib {
-          root = ./.;
-
-          # Include only necessary files
-          # to avoid rebuilds e.g. when README.md or flake.nix changes.
-          include = [
-            ./benches
-            ./assets
-            ./Cargo.lock
-            ./Cargo.toml
-            ./CMakeLists.txt
-            ./CONTRIBUTING.md
-            ./deltachat_derive
-            ./deltachat-ffi
-            ./deltachat-jsonrpc
-            ./deltachat-ratelimit
-            ./deltachat-repl
-            ./deltachat-rpc-client
-            ./deltachat-time
-            ./deltachat-rpc-server
-            ./format-flowed
-            ./release-date.in
-            ./src
-          ];
-          exclude = [
-            (nix-filter.lib.matchExt "nix")
-            "flake.lock"
-          ];
-        };
-
-        # Map from architecture name to rust targets and nixpkgs targets.
-        arch2targets = {
-          "x86_64-linux" = {
-            rustTarget = "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl";
-            crossTarget = "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl";
-          };
-          "armv7l-linux" = {
-            rustTarget = "armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf";
-            crossTarget = "armv7l-unknown-linux-musleabihf";
-          };
-          "armv6l-linux" = {
-            rustTarget = "arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf";
-            crossTarget = "armv6l-unknown-linux-musleabihf";
-          };
-          "aarch64-linux" = {
-            rustTarget = "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl";
-            crossTarget = "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl";
-          };
-          "i686-linux" = {
-            rustTarget = "i686-unknown-linux-musl";
-            crossTarget = "i686-unknown-linux-musl";
-          };
-
-          "x86_64-darwin" = {
-            rustTarget = "x86_64-apple-darwin";
-            crossTarget = "x86_64-darwin";
-          };
-          "aarch64-darwin" = {
-            rustTarget = "aarch64-apple-darwin";
-            crossTarget = "aarch64-darwin";
-          };
-        };
-        cargoLock = {
-          lockFile = ./Cargo.lock;
-          outputHashes = {
-            "email-0.0.20" = "sha256-rV4Uzqt2Qdrfi5Ti1r+Si1c2iW1kKyWLwOgLkQ5JGGw=";
-            "encoded-words-0.2.0" = "sha256-KK9st0hLFh4dsrnLd6D8lC6pRFFs8W+WpZSGMGJcosk=";
-            "lettre-0.9.2" = "sha256-+hU1cFacyyeC9UGVBpS14BWlJjHy90i/3ynMkKAzclk=";
-          };
-        };
-        mkRustPackage = packageName:
-          naersk'.buildPackage {
-            pname = packageName;
-            cargoBuildOptions = x: x ++ [ "--package" packageName ];
-            version = manifest.version;
-            src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
-            nativeBuildInputs = [
-              pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
-            ];
-            buildInputs = pkgs.lib.optionals isDarwin [
-              pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.SystemConfiguration
-            ];
-            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
-            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.
-          };
-        pkgsWin64 = pkgs.pkgsCross.mingwW64;
-        mkWin64RustPackage = packageName:
-          let
-            rustTarget = "x86_64-pc-windows-gnu";
-            toolchainWin = fenixPkgs.combine [
-              fenixPkgs.stable.rustc
-              fenixPkgs.stable.cargo
-              fenixPkgs.targets.${rustTarget}.stable.rust-std
-            ];
-            naerskWin = pkgs.callPackage naersk {
-              cargo = toolchainWin;
-              rustc = toolchainWin;
-            };
-          in
-          naerskWin.buildPackage rec {
-            pname = packageName;
-            cargoBuildOptions = x: x ++ [ "--package" packageName ];
-            version = manifest.version;
-            strictDeps = true;
-            src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
-            nativeBuildInputs = [
-              pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
-            ];
-            depsBuildBuild = [
-              pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc
-              pkgsWin64.windows.pthreads
-            ];
-            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
-            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.
-
-            CARGO_BUILD_TARGET = rustTarget;
-            TARGET_CC = "${pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
-            CARGO_BUILD_RUSTFLAGS = [
-              "-C"
-              "linker=${TARGET_CC}"
-            ];
-
-            CC = "${pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
-            LD = "${pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsWin64.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
-          };
-
-        pkgsWin32 = pkgs.pkgsCross.mingw32;
-        mkWin32RustPackage = packageName:
-          let
-            rustTarget = "i686-pc-windows-gnu";
-          in
-          let
-            toolchainWin = fenixPkgs.combine [
-              fenixPkgs.stable.rustc
-              fenixPkgs.stable.cargo
-              fenixPkgs.targets.${rustTarget}.stable.rust-std
-            ];
-            naerskWin = pkgs.callPackage naersk {
-              cargo = toolchainWin;
-              rustc = toolchainWin;
-            };
-
-            # Get rid of MCF Gthread library.
-            # See <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/156343>
-            # and <https://discourse.nixos.org/t/statically-linked-mingw-binaries/38395>
-            # for details.
-            #
-            # Use DWARF-2 instead of SJLJ for exception handling.
-            winCC = pkgsWin32.buildPackages.wrapCC (
-              (pkgsWin32.buildPackages.gcc-unwrapped.override
-                ({
-                  threadsCross = {
-                    model = "win32";
-                    package = null;
-                  };
-                })).overrideAttrs (oldAttr: {
-                configureFlags = oldAttr.configureFlags ++ [
-                  "--disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2"
-                ];
-              })
-            );
-          in
-          naerskWin.buildPackage rec {
-            pname = packageName;
-            cargoBuildOptions = x: x ++ [ "--package" packageName ];
-            version = manifest.version;
-            strictDeps = true;
-            src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
-            nativeBuildInputs = [
-              pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
-            ];
-            depsBuildBuild = [
-              winCC
-              pkgsWin32.windows.pthreads
-            ];
-            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
-            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.
-
-            CARGO_BUILD_TARGET = rustTarget;
-            TARGET_CC = "${winCC}/bin/${winCC.targetPrefix}cc";
-            CARGO_BUILD_RUSTFLAGS = [
-              "-C"
-              "linker=${TARGET_CC}"
-            ];
-
-            CC = "${winCC}/bin/${winCC.targetPrefix}cc";
-            LD = "${winCC}/bin/${winCC.targetPrefix}cc";
-          };
-
-        mkCrossRustPackage = arch: packageName:
-          let
-            rustTarget = arch2targets."${arch}".rustTarget;
-            crossTarget = arch2targets."${arch}".crossTarget;
-            pkgsCross = import nixpkgs {
-              system = system;
-              crossSystem.config = crossTarget;
-            };
-          in
-          let
-            toolchain = fenixPkgs.combine [
-              fenixPkgs.stable.rustc
-              fenixPkgs.stable.cargo
-              fenixPkgs.targets.${rustTarget}.stable.rust-std
-            ];
-            naersk-lib = pkgs.callPackage naersk {
-              cargo = toolchain;
-              rustc = toolchain;
-            };
-          in
-          naersk-lib.buildPackage rec {
-            pname = packageName;
-            cargoBuildOptions = x: x ++ [ "--package" packageName ];
-            version = manifest.version;
-            strictDeps = true;
-            src = rustSrc;
-            nativeBuildInputs = [
-              pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
-            ];
-            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
-            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.
-
-            CARGO_BUILD_TARGET = rustTarget;
-            TARGET_CC = "${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
-            CARGO_BUILD_RUSTFLAGS = [
-              "-C"
-              "linker=${TARGET_CC}"
-            ];
-
-            CC = "${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
-            LD = "${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
-          };
-
-        androidAttrs = {
-          armeabi-v7a = {
-            cc = "armv7a-linux-androideabi19-clang";
-            rustTarget = "armv7-linux-androideabi";
-          };
-          arm64-v8a = {
-            cc = "aarch64-linux-android21-clang";
-            rustTarget = "aarch64-linux-android";
-          };
-        };
-
-        mkAndroidRustPackage = arch: packageName:
-          let
-            rustTarget = androidAttrs.${arch}.rustTarget;
-            toolchain = fenixPkgs.combine [
-              fenixPkgs.stable.rustc
-              fenixPkgs.stable.cargo
-              fenixPkgs.targets.${rustTarget}.stable.rust-std
-            ];
-            naersk-lib = pkgs.callPackage naersk {
-              cargo = toolchain;
-              rustc = toolchain;
-            };
-            targetToolchain = "${androidNdkRoot}/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64";
-            targetCcName = androidAttrs.${arch}.cc;
-            targetCc = "${targetToolchain}/bin/${targetCcName}";
-          in
-          naersk-lib.buildPackage rec {
-            pname = packageName;
-            cargoBuildOptions = x: x ++ [ "--package" packageName ];
-            version = manifest.version;
-            strictDeps = true;
-            src = rustSrc;
-            nativeBuildInputs = [
-              pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
-            ];
-            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
-            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.
-
-            CARGO_BUILD_TARGET = rustTarget;
-            TARGET_CC = "${targetCc}";
-            CARGO_BUILD_RUSTFLAGS = [
-              "-C"
-              "linker=${TARGET_CC}"
-            ];
-
-            CC = "${targetCc}";
-            LD = "${targetCc}";
-          };
-
-        mkAndroidPackages = arch: {
-          "deltachat-rpc-server-${arch}-android" = mkAndroidRustPackage arch "deltachat-rpc-server";
-          "deltachat-repl-${arch}-android" = mkAndroidRustPackage arch "deltachat-repl";
-        };
-
-        mkRustPackages = arch:
-          let
-            rpc-server = mkCrossRustPackage arch "deltachat-rpc-server";
-          in
-          {
-            "deltachat-repl-${arch}" = mkCrossRustPackage arch "deltachat-repl";
-            "deltachat-rpc-server-${arch}" = rpc-server;
-            "deltachat-rpc-server-${arch}-wheel" =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "deltachat-rpc-server-${arch}-wheel";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = nix-filter.lib {
-                  root = ./.;
-                  include = [
-                    "scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py"
-                    "deltachat-rpc-server/README.md"
-                    "LICENSE"
-                    "Cargo.toml"
-                  ];
-                };
-                nativeBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.python3
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.wheel
-                ];
-                buildInputs = [
-                  rpc-server
-                ];
-                buildPhase = ''
-                  mkdir tmp
-                  cp ${rpc-server}/bin/deltachat-rpc-server tmp/deltachat-rpc-server
-                  python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py ${arch} tmp/deltachat-rpc-server
-                '';
-                installPhase = ''mkdir -p $out; cp -av deltachat_rpc_server-*.whl $out'';
-              };
-          };
-      in
-      {
-        formatter = pkgs.nixpkgs-fmt;
-
-        packages =
-          mkRustPackages "aarch64-linux" //
-          mkRustPackages "i686-linux" //
-          mkRustPackages "x86_64-linux" //
-          mkRustPackages "armv7l-linux" //
-          mkRustPackages "armv6l-linux" //
-          mkAndroidPackages "armeabi-v7a" //
-          mkAndroidPackages "arm64-v8a" //
-          mkAndroidPackages "x86" //
-          mkAndroidPackages "x86_64" // rec {
-            # Run with `nix run .#deltachat-repl foo.db`.
-            deltachat-repl = mkRustPackage "deltachat-repl";
-            deltachat-rpc-server = mkRustPackage "deltachat-rpc-server";
-
-            deltachat-repl-win64 = mkWin64RustPackage "deltachat-repl";
-            deltachat-rpc-server-win64 = mkWin64RustPackage "deltachat-rpc-server";
-            deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = nix-filter.lib {
-                  root = ./.;
-                  include = [
-                    "scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py"
-                    "deltachat-rpc-server/README.md"
-                    "LICENSE"
-                    "Cargo.toml"
-                  ];
-                };
-                nativeBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.python3
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.wheel
-                ];
-                buildInputs = [
-                  deltachat-rpc-server-win64
-                ];
-                buildPhase = ''
-                  mkdir tmp
-                  cp ${deltachat-rpc-server-win64}/bin/deltachat-rpc-server.exe tmp/deltachat-rpc-server.exe
-                  python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py win64 tmp/deltachat-rpc-server.exe
-                '';
-                installPhase = ''mkdir -p $out; cp -av deltachat_rpc_server-*.whl $out'';
-              };
-
-            deltachat-repl-win32 = mkWin32RustPackage "deltachat-repl";
-            deltachat-rpc-server-win32 = mkWin32RustPackage "deltachat-rpc-server";
-            deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = nix-filter.lib {
-                  root = ./.;
-                  include = [
-                    "scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py"
-                    "deltachat-rpc-server/README.md"
-                    "LICENSE"
-                    "Cargo.toml"
-                  ];
-                };
-                nativeBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.python3
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.wheel
-                ];
-                buildInputs = [
-                  deltachat-rpc-server-win32
-                ];
-                buildPhase = ''
-                  mkdir tmp
-                  cp ${deltachat-rpc-server-win32}/bin/deltachat-rpc-server.exe tmp/deltachat-rpc-server.exe
-                  python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py win32 tmp/deltachat-rpc-server.exe
-                '';
-                installPhase = ''mkdir -p $out; cp -av deltachat_rpc_server-*.whl $out'';
-              };
-            # Run `nix build .#docs` to get C docs generated in `./result/`.
-            docs =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "docs";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
-                nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.doxygen ];
-                buildPhase = ''scripts/run-doxygen.sh'';
-                installPhase = ''mkdir -p $out; cp -av deltachat-ffi/html deltachat-ffi/xml $out'';
-              };
-
-            libdeltachat =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "libdeltachat";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = rustSrc;
-                cargoDeps = pkgs.rustPlatform.importCargoLock cargoLock;
-
-                nativeBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
-                  pkgs.cmake
-                  pkgs.rustPlatform.cargoSetupHook
-                  pkgs.cargo
-                ];
-                buildInputs = pkgs.lib.optionals isDarwin [
-                  pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.CoreFoundation
-                  pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security
-                  pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.SystemConfiguration
-                  pkgs.libiconv
-                ];
-
-                postInstall = ''
-                  substituteInPlace $out/include/deltachat.h \
-                    --replace __FILE__ '"${placeholder "out"}/include/deltachat.h"'
-                '';
-              };
-
-            # Source package for deltachat-rpc-server.
-            # Fake package that downloads Linux version,
-            # needed to install deltachat-rpc-server on Android with `pip`.
-            deltachat-rpc-server-source =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "deltachat-rpc-server-source";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
-                nativeBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.python3
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.wheel
-                ];
-                buildPhase = ''python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py source deltachat-rpc-server-${manifest.version}.tar.gz'';
-                installPhase = ''mkdir -p $out; cp -av deltachat-rpc-server-${manifest.version}.tar.gz $out'';
-              };
-
-            deltachat-rpc-client =
-              pkgs.python3Packages.buildPythonPackage {
-                pname = "deltachat-rpc-client";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./deltachat-rpc-client;
-                format = "pyproject";
-                propagatedBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.setuptools
-                ];
-              };
-
-            deltachat-python =
-              pkgs.python3Packages.buildPythonPackage {
-                pname = "deltachat-python";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./python;
-                format = "pyproject";
-                buildInputs = [
-                  libdeltachat
-                ];
-                nativeBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.pkg-config
-                ];
-                propagatedBuildInputs = [
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.setuptools
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.pkgconfig
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.cffi
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.imap-tools
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.pluggy
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.requests
-                ];
-              };
-            python-docs =
-              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-                pname = "docs";
-                version = manifest.version;
-                src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
-                buildInputs = [
-                  deltachat-python
-                  deltachat-rpc-client
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.breathe
-                  pkgs.python3Packages.sphinx_rtd_theme
-                ];
-                nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.sphinx ];
-                buildPhase = ''sphinx-build -b html -a python/doc/ dist/html'';
-                installPhase = ''mkdir -p $out; cp -av dist/html $out'';
-              };
-          };
-
-        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
-          buildInputs = with pkgs; [
-            (fenixPkgs.complete.withComponents [
-              "cargo"
-              "clippy"
-              "rust-src"
-              "rustc"
-              "rustfmt"
-            ])
-            cargo-deny
-            fenixPkgs.rust-analyzer
-            perl # needed to build vendored OpenSSL
-          ];
-        };
-      }
-    );
-}
--- a/fuzz/Cargo.lock
+++ b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
--- a/node/README.md
+++ b/node/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ npm install deltachat-node

 ## Dependencies

- Nodejs >= `v18.0.0`
+- Nodejs >= `v16.0.0`
 - rustup (optional if you can't use the prebuilds)

 > On Windows, you may need to also install **Perl** to be able to compile deltachat-core.
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ Then, in the `deltachat-desktop` repository, run:
 deltachat doesn't support universal (fat) binaries (that contain builds for both cpu architectures) yet, until it does you can use the following workaround to get x86_64 builds:

 ```
-$ fnm install 19 --arch x64
-$ fnm use 19
+$ fnm install 17 --arch x64
+$ fnm use 17
 $ node -p process.arch
 # result should be x64
 $ rustup target add x86_64-apple-darwin
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ $ npm run test
 If your node and electron are already build for arm64 you can also try building for arm:

 ```
-$ fnm install 18 --arch arm64
-$ fnm use 18
+$ fnm install 16 --arch arm64
+$ fnm use 16
 $ node -p process.arch
 # result should be arm64
 $ npm_config_arch=arm64 npm run build
@@ -204,10 +204,10 @@ Running `npm test` ends with showing a code coverage report, which is produced b

 The coverage report from `nyc` in the console is rather limited. To get a more detailed coverage report you can run `npm run coverage-html-report`. This will produce a html report from the `nyc` data and display it in a browser on your local machine.

-To run the integration tests you need to set the `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN` environment variables. E.g.:
+To run the integration tests you need to set the `DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL` environment variables. E.g.:

 ```
-$ export CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=chat.example.org
+$ export DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL=https://testrun.org/new_email?t=[token]
 $ npm run test
 ```

--- a/node/constants.js
+++ b/node/constants.js
@@ -28,12 +28,9 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_DOWNLOAD_DONE: 0,
  DC_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE: 20,
  DC_DOWNLOAD_IN_PROGRESS: 1000,
-  DC_DOWNLOAD_UNDECIPHERABLE: 30,
-  DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE: 2200,
  DC_EVENT_CHAT_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_MODIFIED: 2021,
  DC_EVENT_CHAT_MODIFIED: 2020,
  DC_EVENT_CONFIGURE_PROGRESS: 2041,
-  DC_EVENT_CONFIG_SYNCED: 2111,
  DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED: 2100,
  DC_EVENT_CONTACTS_CHANGED: 2030,
  DC_EVENT_DELETED_BLOB_FILE: 151,
@@ -81,7 +78,6 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_INFO_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_CHANGED: 10,
  DC_INFO_GROUP_IMAGE_CHANGED: 3,
  DC_INFO_GROUP_NAME_CHANGED: 2,
-  DC_INFO_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL: 13,
  DC_INFO_LOCATIONSTREAMING_ENABLED: 8,
  DC_INFO_LOCATION_ONLY: 9,
  DC_INFO_MEMBER_ADDED_TO_GROUP: 4,
@@ -115,9 +111,6 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_PROVIDER_STATUS_BROKEN: 3,
  DC_PROVIDER_STATUS_OK: 1,
  DC_PROVIDER_STATUS_PREPARATION: 2,
-  DC_PUSH_CONNECTED: 2,
-  DC_PUSH_HEARTBEAT: 1,
-  DC_PUSH_NOT_CONNECTED: 0,
  DC_QR_ACCOUNT: 250,
  DC_QR_ADDR: 320,
  DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT: 200,
@@ -231,13 +224,11 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_STR_GROUP_NAME_CHANGED_BY_YOU: 124,
  DC_STR_IMAGE: 9,
  DC_STR_INCOMING_MESSAGES: 103,
-  DC_STR_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL: 174,
  DC_STR_LAST_MSG_SENT_SUCCESSFULLY: 111,
  DC_STR_LOCATION: 66,
  DC_STR_LOCATION_ENABLED_BY_OTHER: 137,
  DC_STR_LOCATION_ENABLED_BY_YOU: 136,
  DC_STR_MESSAGES: 114,
-  DC_STR_MESSAGE_ADD_MEMBER: 173,
  DC_STR_MSGACTIONBYME: 63,
  DC_STR_MSGACTIONBYUSER: 62,
  DC_STR_MSGADDMEMBER: 17,
@@ -248,7 +239,6 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_STR_MSGGRPNAME: 15,
  DC_STR_MSGLOCATIONDISABLED: 65,
  DC_STR_MSGLOCATIONENABLED: 64,
-  DC_STR_NEW_GROUP_SEND_FIRST_MESSAGE: 172,
  DC_STR_NOMESSAGES: 1,
  DC_STR_NOT_CONNECTED: 121,
  DC_STR_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_PROVIDER: 113,
@@ -257,7 +247,6 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_STR_PARTIAL_DOWNLOAD_MSG_BODY: 99,
  DC_STR_PART_OF_TOTAL_USED: 116,
  DC_STR_QUOTA_EXCEEDING_MSG_BODY: 98,
-  DC_STR_REACTED_BY: 177,
  DC_STR_READRCPT: 31,
  DC_STR_READRCPT_MAILBODY: 32,
  DC_STR_REMOVE_MEMBER_BY_OTHER: 131,
@@ -285,7 +274,6 @@ module.exports = {
  DC_STR_VIDEOCHAT_INVITE_MSG_BODY: 83,
  DC_STR_VOICEMESSAGE: 7,
  DC_STR_WELCOME_MESSAGE: 71,
-  DC_STR_YOU_REACTED: 176,
  DC_TEXT1_DRAFT: 1,
  DC_TEXT1_SELF: 3,
  DC_TEXT1_USERNAME: 2,
--- a/node/events.js
+++ b/node/events.js
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ module.exports = {
  2061: 'DC_EVENT_SECUREJOIN_JOINER_PROGRESS',
  2100: 'DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED',
  2110: 'DC_EVENT_SELFAVATAR_CHANGED',
-  2111: 'DC_EVENT_CONFIG_SYNCED',
  2120: 'DC_EVENT_WEBXDC_STATUS_UPDATE',
-  2121: 'DC_EVENT_WEBXDC_INSTANCE_DELETED',
-  2200: 'DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE'
+  2121: 'DC_EVENT_WEBXDC_INSTANCE_DELETED'
 }
--- a/node/lib/constants.ts
+++ b/node/lib/constants.ts
@@ -28,12 +28,9 @@ export enum C {
  DC_DOWNLOAD_DONE = 0,
  DC_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE = 20,
  DC_DOWNLOAD_IN_PROGRESS = 1000,
-  DC_DOWNLOAD_UNDECIPHERABLE = 30,
-  DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE = 2200,
  DC_EVENT_CHAT_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_MODIFIED = 2021,
  DC_EVENT_CHAT_MODIFIED = 2020,
  DC_EVENT_CONFIGURE_PROGRESS = 2041,
-  DC_EVENT_CONFIG_SYNCED = 2111,
  DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED = 2100,
  DC_EVENT_CONTACTS_CHANGED = 2030,
  DC_EVENT_DELETED_BLOB_FILE = 151,
@@ -81,7 +78,6 @@ export enum C {
  DC_INFO_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_CHANGED = 10,
  DC_INFO_GROUP_IMAGE_CHANGED = 3,
  DC_INFO_GROUP_NAME_CHANGED = 2,
-  DC_INFO_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL = 13,
  DC_INFO_LOCATIONSTREAMING_ENABLED = 8,
  DC_INFO_LOCATION_ONLY = 9,
  DC_INFO_MEMBER_ADDED_TO_GROUP = 4,
@@ -115,9 +111,6 @@ export enum C {
  DC_PROVIDER_STATUS_BROKEN = 3,
  DC_PROVIDER_STATUS_OK = 1,
  DC_PROVIDER_STATUS_PREPARATION = 2,
-  DC_PUSH_CONNECTED = 2,
-  DC_PUSH_HEARTBEAT = 1,
-  DC_PUSH_NOT_CONNECTED = 0,
  DC_QR_ACCOUNT = 250,
  DC_QR_ADDR = 320,
  DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT = 200,
@@ -231,13 +224,11 @@ export enum C {
  DC_STR_GROUP_NAME_CHANGED_BY_YOU = 124,
  DC_STR_IMAGE = 9,
  DC_STR_INCOMING_MESSAGES = 103,
-  DC_STR_INVALID_UNENCRYPTED_MAIL = 174,
  DC_STR_LAST_MSG_SENT_SUCCESSFULLY = 111,
  DC_STR_LOCATION = 66,
  DC_STR_LOCATION_ENABLED_BY_OTHER = 137,
  DC_STR_LOCATION_ENABLED_BY_YOU = 136,
  DC_STR_MESSAGES = 114,
-  DC_STR_MESSAGE_ADD_MEMBER = 173,
  DC_STR_MSGACTIONBYME = 63,
  DC_STR_MSGACTIONBYUSER = 62,
  DC_STR_MSGADDMEMBER = 17,
@@ -248,7 +239,6 @@ export enum C {
  DC_STR_MSGGRPNAME = 15,
  DC_STR_MSGLOCATIONDISABLED = 65,
  DC_STR_MSGLOCATIONENABLED = 64,
-  DC_STR_NEW_GROUP_SEND_FIRST_MESSAGE = 172,
  DC_STR_NOMESSAGES = 1,
  DC_STR_NOT_CONNECTED = 121,
  DC_STR_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_PROVIDER = 113,
@@ -257,7 +247,6 @@ export enum C {
  DC_STR_PARTIAL_DOWNLOAD_MSG_BODY = 99,
  DC_STR_PART_OF_TOTAL_USED = 116,
  DC_STR_QUOTA_EXCEEDING_MSG_BODY = 98,
-  DC_STR_REACTED_BY = 177,
  DC_STR_READRCPT = 31,
  DC_STR_READRCPT_MAILBODY = 32,
  DC_STR_REMOVE_MEMBER_BY_OTHER = 131,
@@ -285,7 +274,6 @@ export enum C {
  DC_STR_VIDEOCHAT_INVITE_MSG_BODY = 83,
  DC_STR_VOICEMESSAGE = 7,
  DC_STR_WELCOME_MESSAGE = 71,
-  DC_STR_YOU_REACTED = 176,
  DC_TEXT1_DRAFT = 1,
  DC_TEXT1_SELF = 3,
  DC_TEXT1_USERNAME = 2,
@@ -329,8 +317,6 @@ export const EventId2EventName: { [key: number]: string } = {
  2061: 'DC_EVENT_SECUREJOIN_JOINER_PROGRESS',
  2100: 'DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED',
  2110: 'DC_EVENT_SELFAVATAR_CHANGED',
-  2111: 'DC_EVENT_CONFIG_SYNCED',
  2120: 'DC_EVENT_WEBXDC_STATUS_UPDATE',
  2121: 'DC_EVENT_WEBXDC_INSTANCE_DELETED',
-  2200: 'DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE',
 }
--- a/node/lib/context.ts
+++ b/node/lib/context.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export class Context extends EventEmitter {
    }
  }

-  /** Opens a standalone context (without an account manager)
+  /** Opens a stanalone context (without an account manager)
   * automatically starts the event handler */
  static open(cwd: string): Context {
    const dbFile = join(cwd, 'db.sqlite')
--- a/node/lib/deltachat.ts
+++ b/node/lib/deltachat.ts
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ export class AccountManager extends EventEmitter {
  static newTemporary() {
    let directory = null
    while (true) {
-      const randomString = Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 5)
+      const randomString = Math.random().toString(36).substr(2, 5)
      directory = join(tmpdir(), 'deltachat-' + randomString)
      if (!existsSync(directory)) break
    }
--- a/node/src/module.c
+++ b/node/src/module.c
@@ -3048,6 +3048,14 @@ NAPI_METHOD(dcn_accounts_select_account) {
  NAPI_RETURN_UINT32(result);
 }

+NAPI_METHOD(dcn_accounts_all_work_done) {
+  NAPI_ARGV(1);
+  NAPI_DCN_ACCOUNTS();
+
+  int result = dc_accounts_all_work_done(dcn_accounts->dc_accounts);
+  NAPI_RETURN_INT32(result);
+}
+
 NAPI_METHOD(dcn_accounts_start_io) {
  NAPI_ARGV(1);
  NAPI_DCN_ACCOUNTS();
@@ -3374,6 +3382,7 @@ NAPI_INIT() {
  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_get_account);
  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_get_selected_account);
  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_select_account);
+  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_all_work_done);
  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_start_io);
  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_stop_io);
  NAPI_EXPORT_FUNCTION(dcn_accounts_maybe_network);
--- a/node/test/test.mjs
+++ b/node/test/test.mjs
@@ -1,28 +1,33 @@
 // @ts-check
-import { DeltaChat } from '../dist/index.js'
+import DeltaChat from '../dist'

 import { deepStrictEqual, strictEqual } from 'assert'
 import chai, { expect } from 'chai'
 import chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
-import { EventId2EventName, C } from '../dist/constants.js'
+import { EventId2EventName, C } from '../dist/constants'
 import { join } from 'path'
 import { statSync } from 'fs'
-import { Context } from '../dist/context.js'
-import {fileURLToPath} from 'url';
-
-const __dirname = fileURLToPath(new URL('.', import.meta.url));
-
+import { Context } from '../dist/context'
+import fetch from 'node-fetch'
 chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
 chai.config.truncateThreshold = 0 // Do not truncate assertion errors.

-function createTempUser(chatmailDomain) {
-  const charset = "2345789acdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz";
-  let user = "ci-";
-  for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
-    user += charset[Math.floor(Math.random() * charset.length)];
+async function createTempUser(url) {
+  async function postData(url = '') {
+    // Default options are marked with *
+    const response = await fetch(url, {
+      method: 'POST', // *GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
+      headers: {
+        'cache-control': 'no-cache',
+      },
+    })
+    if (!response.ok) {
+      throw new Error('request failed: ' + response.body.read())
+    }
+    return response.json() // parses JSON response into native JavaScript objects
  }
-  const email = user + "@" + chatmailDomain;
-  return { email: email, password: user + "$" + user };
+
+  return await postData(url)
 }

 describe('static tests', function () {
@@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ describe('Basic offline Tests', function () {
      'delete_device_after',
      'delete_server_after',
      'deltachat_core_version',
-      'displayname',
+      'display_name',
      'download_limit',
      'e2ee_enabled',
      'entered_account_settings',
@@ -250,7 +255,6 @@ describe('Basic offline Tests', function () {
      'journal_mode',
      'key_gen_type',
      'last_housekeeping',
-      'last_cant_decrypt_outgoing_msgs',
      'level',
      'mdns_enabled',
      'media_quality',
@@ -266,7 +270,7 @@ describe('Basic offline Tests', function () {
      'quota_exceeding',
      'scan_all_folders_debounce_secs',
      'selfavatar',
-      'sync_msgs',
+      'send_sync_msgs',
      'sentbox_watch',
      'show_emails',
      'socks5_enabled',
@@ -672,9 +676,9 @@ describe('Offline Tests with unconfigured account', function () {

    const lot = chatList.getSummary(0)
    strictEqual(lot.getId(), 0, 'lot has no id')
-    strictEqual(lot.getState(), C.DC_STATE_IN_NOTICED, 'correct state')
+    strictEqual(lot.getState(), C.DC_STATE_UNDEFINED, 'correct state')

-    const text = 'Others will only see this group after you sent a first message.'
+    const text = 'No messages.'
    context.createGroupChat('groupchat1111')
    chatList = context.getChatList(0, 'groupchat1111', null)
    strictEqual(
@@ -764,7 +768,14 @@ describe('Integration tests', function () {
  })

  this.beforeAll(async function () {
-    account = createTempUser(process.env.CHATMAIL_DOMAIN)
+    if (!process.env.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL) {
+      console.log(
+        'Missing DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL environment variable!, skip integration tests'
+      )
+      this.skip()
+    }
+
+    account = await createTempUser(process.env.DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL)
    if (!account || !account.email || !account.password) {
      console.log(
        "We didn't got back an account from the api, skip integration tests"
--- a/node/tsconfig.json
+++ b/node/tsconfig.json
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
    },
    "exclude": ["node_modules", "deltachat-core-rust", "dist", "scripts"],
    "typedocOptions": {
+        "mode": "file",
        "out": "docs",
-        "excludePrivate": true,
+        "excludeNotExported": true,
        "defaultCategory": "index",
-        "includeVersion": true,
-        "entryPoints": ["lib/index.ts"]
+        "includeVersion": true
    }
 }
--- a/node/windows.md
+++ b/node/windows.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ E.g via <https://git-scm.com/download/win>

 ## install node

-Download and install `v18` from <https://nodejs.org/en/>
+Download and install `v16` from <https://nodejs.org/en/>

 ## install rust

--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,24 +2,28 @@
  "dependencies": {
    "debug": "^4.1.1",
    "napi-macros": "^2.0.0",
-    "node-gyp-build": "^4.6.1"
+    "node-gyp-build": "^4.1.0"
  },
  "description": "node.js bindings for deltachat-core",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/debug": "^4.1.7",
-    "@types/node": "^20.8.10",
-    "chai": "~4.3.10",
+    "@types/node": "^16.11.26",
+    "chai": "^4.2.0",
    "chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
+    "esm": "^3.2.25",
+    "hallmark": "^2.0.0",
    "mocha": "^8.2.1",
-    "node-gyp": "^10.0.0",
-    "prebuildify": "^5.0.1",
-    "prebuildify-ci": "^1.0.5",
-    "prettier": "^3.0.3",
-    "typedoc": "^0.25.3",
-    "typescript": "^5.2.2"
+    "node-fetch": "^2.6.7",
+    "node-gyp": "^9.0.0",
+    "opn-cli": "^5.0.0",
+    "prebuildify": "^3.0.0",
+    "prebuildify-ci": "^1.0.4",
+    "prettier": "^2.0.5",
+    "typedoc": "^0.17.0",
+    "typescript": "^3.9.10"
  },
  "engines": {
-    "node": ">=18.0.0"
+    "node": ">=16.0.0"
  },
  "files": [
    "node/scripts/*",
@@ -45,15 +49,16 @@
    "build:core:rust": "node node/scripts/rebuild-core.js",
    "clean": "rm -rf node/dist node/build node/prebuilds node/node_modules ./target",
    "download-prebuilds": "prebuildify-ci download",
+    "hallmark": "hallmark --fix",
    "install": "node node/scripts/install.js",
    "install:prebuilds": "cd node && node-gyp-build \"npm run build:core\" \"npm run build:bindings:c:postinstall\"",
    "lint": "prettier --check \"node/lib/**/*.{ts,tsx}\"",
    "lint-fix": "prettier --write \"node/lib/**/*.{ts,tsx}\" \"node/test/**/*.js\"",
-    "prebuildify": "cd node && prebuildify -t 18.0.0 --napi --strip --postinstall \"node scripts/postinstall.js --prebuild\"",
+    "prebuildify": "cd node && prebuildify -t 16.13.0 --napi --strip --postinstall \"node scripts/postinstall.js --prebuild\"",
    "test": "npm run test:lint && npm run test:mocha",
    "test:lint": "npm run lint",
-    "test:mocha": "mocha node/test/test.mjs --growl --reporter=spec --bail --exit"
+    "test:mocha": "mocha -r esm node/test/test.js --growl --reporter=spec --bail --exit"
  },
  "types": "node/dist/index.d.ts",
-  "version": "1.137.2"
+  "version": "1.123.0"
 }
--- a/python/README.rst
+++ b/python/README.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-============================
-CFFI Python Bindings
-============================
+=========================
+DeltaChat Python bindings
+=========================

 This package provides `Python bindings`_ to the `deltachat-core library`_
 which implements IMAP/SMTP/MIME/OpenPGP e-mail standards and offers
@@ -8,3 +8,157 @@ a low-level Chat/Contact/Message API to user interfaces and bots.

 .. _`deltachat-core library`: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust
 .. _`Python bindings`: https://py.delta.chat/
+
+Installing pre-built packages (Linux-only)
+==========================================
+
+If you have a Linux system you may install the ``deltachat`` binary "wheel" packages
+without any "build-from-source" steps.
+Otherwise you need to `compile the Delta Chat bindings yourself`__.
+
+__ sourceinstall_
+
+We recommend to first create a fresh Python virtual environment
+and activate it in your shell::
+
+    python -m venv env
+    source env/bin/activate
+
+Afterwards, invoking ``python`` or ``pip install`` only
+modifies files in your ``env`` directory and leaves
+your system installation alone.
+
+For Linux we build wheels for all releases and push them to a python package
+index. To install the latest release::
+
+    pip install deltachat
+
+To verify it worked::
+
+    python -c "import deltachat"
+
+Running tests
+=============
+
+Recommended way to run tests is using `scripts/run-python-test.sh`
+script provided in the core repository.
+
+This script compiles the library in debug mode and runs the tests using `tox`_.
+By default it will run all "offline" tests and skip all functional
+end-to-end tests that require accounts on real e-mail servers.
+
+.. _`tox`: https://tox.wiki
+.. _livetests:
+
+Running "live" tests with temporary accounts
+--------------------------------------------
+
+If you want to run live functional tests you can set ``DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL`` to a URL that creates e-mail accounts.  Most developers use https://testrun.org URLs created and managed by `mailadm <https://mailadm.readthedocs.io/>`_.
+
+Please feel free to contact us through a github issue or by e-mail and we'll send you a URL that you can then use for functional tests like this::
+
+    export DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL=<URL you got from us>
+
+With this account-creation setting, pytest runs create ephemeral e-mail accounts on the http://testrun.org server.
+These accounts are removed automatically as they expire.
+After setting the variable, either rerun `scripts/run-python-test.sh`
+or run offline and online tests with `tox` directly::
+
+    tox -e py
+
+Each test run creates new accounts.
+
+Developing the bindings
+-----------------------
+
+If you want to develop or debug the bindings,
+you can create a testing development environment using `tox`::
+
+    export DCC_RS_DEV="$PWD"
+    export DCC_RS_TARGET=debug
+    tox -c python --devenv env -e py
+    . env/bin/activate
+
+Inside this environment the bindings are installed
+in editable mode (as if installed with `python -m pip install -e`)
+together with the testing dependencies like `pytest` and its plugins.
+
+You can then edit the source code in the development tree
+and quickly run `pytest` manually without waiting  for `tox`
+to recreating the virtual environment each time.
+
+.. _sourceinstall:
+
+Installing bindings from source
+===============================
+
+Install Rust and Cargo first.
+The easiest is probably to use `rustup <https://rustup.rs/>`_.
+
+Bootstrap Rust and Cargo by using rustup::
+
+   curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
+
+Then clone the deltachat-core-rust repo::
+
+   git clone https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust
+   cd deltachat-core-rust
+
+To install the Delta Chat Python bindings make sure you have Python3 installed.
+E.g. on Debian-based systems `apt install python3 python3-pip
+python3-venv` should give you a usable python installation.
+
+First, build the core library::
+
+   cargo build --release -p deltachat_ffi --features jsonrpc
+
+`jsonrpc` feature is required even if not used by the bindings
+because `deltachat.h` includes JSON-RPC functions unconditionally.
+
+Create the virtual environment and activate it:
+
+   python -m venv env
+   source env/bin/activate
+
+Build and install the bindings:
+
+   export DCC_RS_DEV="$PWD"
+   export DCC_RS_TARGET=release
+   python -m pip install ./python
+
+`DCC_RS_DEV` environment variable specifies the location of
+the core development tree. If this variable is not set,
+`libdeltachat` library and `deltachat.h` header are expected
+to be installed system-wide.
+
+When `DCC_RS_DEV` is set, `DCC_RS_TARGET` specifies
+the build profile name to look up the artifacts
+in the target directory.
+In this case setting it can be skipped because
+`DCC_RS_TARGET=release` is the default.
+
+Building manylinux based wheels
+===============================
+
+Building portable manylinux wheels which come with libdeltachat.so
+can be done with Docker_ or Podman_.
+
+.. _Docker: https://www.docker.com/
+.. _Podman: https://podman.io/
+
+If you want to build your own wheels, build container image first::
+
+   $ cd deltachat-core-rust # cd to deltachat-core-rust working tree
+   $ docker build -t deltachat/coredeps scripts/coredeps
+
+This will use the ``scripts/coredeps/Dockerfile`` to build
+container image called ``deltachat/coredeps``.  You can afterwards
+find it with::
+
+   $ docker images
+
+This docker image can be used to run tests and build Python wheels for all interpreters::
+
+    $ docker run -e DCC_NEW_TMP_EMAIL \
+       --rm -it -v $(pwd):/mnt -w /mnt \
+       deltachat/coredeps scripts/run_all.sh
--- a/python/doc/Makefile
+++ b/python/doc/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+VERSION       = $(shell python -c "import conf ; print(conf.version)")
+DOCZIP        = devpi-$(VERSION).doc.zip
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+PAPER         =
+BUILDDIR      = _build
+RSYNCOPTS     = -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null"
+
+export HOME=/tmp/home
+export TESTHOME=$(HOME)
+
+# Internal variables.
+PAPEROPT_a4     = -D latex_paper_size=a4
+PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
+ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
+# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
+I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
+
+# This variable is not auto generated as the order is important.
+USER_MAN_CHAPTERS = commands\
+                    user\
+                    indices\
+                    packages\
+#                 userman/index.rst\
+#                 userman/devpi_misc.rst\
+#                 userman/devpi_concepts.rst\
+
+
+#export DEVPI_CLIENTDIR=$(CURDIR)/.tmp_devpi_user_man/client
+#export DEVPI_SERVERDIR=$(CURDIR)/.tmp_devpi_user_man/server
+
+chapter = commands
+
+.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp \
+        epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext install \
+        quickstart-releaseprocess quickstart-pypimirror quickstart-server regen \
+        prepare-quickstart\
+        regen.server-fresh regen.server-restart regen.server-clean\
+        regen.uman-all regen.uman
+
+help:
+	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
+	@echo "  html       to make standalone HTML files"
+	@echo "  dirhtml    to make HTML files named index.html in directories"
+	@echo "  singlehtml to make a single large HTML file"
+	@echo "  pickle     to make pickle files"
+	@echo "  json       to make JSON files"
+	@echo "  htmlhelp   to make HTML files and a HTML help project"
+	@echo "  qthelp     to make HTML files and a qthelp project"
+	@echo "  devhelp    to make HTML files and a Devhelp project"
+	@echo "  epub       to make an epub"
+	@echo "  latex      to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter"
+	@echo "  latexpdf   to make LaTeX files and run them through pdflatex"
+	@echo "  text       to make text files"
+	@echo "  man        to make manual pages"
+	@echo "  texinfo    to make Texinfo files"
+	@echo "  info       to make Texinfo files and run them through makeinfo"
+	@echo "  gettext    to make PO message catalogs"
+	@echo "  changes    to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items"
+	@echo "  linkcheck  to check all external links for integrity"
+	@echo "  doctest    to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)"
+	@echo
+	@echo "User Manual Regen Targets"
+	@echo "  regen.uman        regenerates page. of the user manual chapeter e.g. regen.uman chapter=..."
+	@echo "  regen.uman-all    regenerates the user manual"
+	@echo "  regen.uman-clean  stop temp server and clean up directory"
+	@echo "  Chapter List: $(USER_MAN_CHAPTERS)"
+
+clean:
+	-rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*
+
+version:
+	@echo "version $(VERSION)"
+
+doczip: html
+	python doczip.py $(DOCZIP) _build/html
+
+install: html
+	rsync -avz $(RSYNCOPTS) _build/html/ delta@py.delta.chat:build/master
+
+
+html:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/html."
+
+dirhtml:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b dirhtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml."
+
+singlehtml:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b singlehtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/singlehtml
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML page is in $(BUILDDIR)/singlehtml."
+
+pickle:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b pickle $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/pickle
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can process the pickle files."
+
+json:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b json $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/json
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can process the JSON files."
+
+htmlhelp:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b htmlhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/htmlhelp
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can run HTML Help Workshop with the" \
+	      ".hhp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/htmlhelp."
+
+qthelp:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b qthelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can run "qcollectiongenerator" with the" \
+	      ".qhcp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp, like this:"
+	@echo "# qcollectiongenerator $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/devpi.qhcp"
+	@echo "To view the help file:"
+	@echo "# assistant -collectionFile $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/devpi.qhc"
+
+devhelp:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b devhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished."
+	@echo "To view the help file:"
+	@echo "# mkdir -p $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/devpi"
+	@echo "# ln -s $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/devpi"
+	@echo "# devhelp"
+
+epub:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b epub $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/epub
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The epub file is in $(BUILDDIR)/epub."
+
+latex:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; the LaTeX files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex."
+	@echo "Run \`make' in that directory to run these through (pdf)latex" \
+	      "(use \`make latexpdf' here to do that automatically)."
+
+latexpdf:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex
+	@echo "Running LaTeX files through pdflatex..."
+	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILDDIR)/latex all-pdf
+	@echo "pdflatex finished; the PDF files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex."
+
+text:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b text $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/text
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The text files are in $(BUILDDIR)/text."
+
+man:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b man $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/man
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The manual pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/man."
+
+texinfo:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b texinfo $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The Texinfo files are in $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo."
+	@echo "Run \`make' in that directory to run these through makeinfo" \
+	      "(use \`make info' here to do that automatically)."
+
+info:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b texinfo $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo
+	@echo "Running Texinfo files through makeinfo..."
+	make -C $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo info
+	@echo "makeinfo finished; the Info files are in $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo."
+
+gettext:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b gettext $(I18NSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/locale
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The message catalogs are in $(BUILDDIR)/locale."
+
+changes:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b changes $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/changes
+	@echo
+	@echo "The overview file is in $(BUILDDIR)/changes."
+
+linkcheck:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b linkcheck $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/linkcheck
+	@echo
+	@echo "Link check complete; look for any errors in the above output " \
+	      "or in $(BUILDDIR)/linkcheck/output.txt."
+
+doctest:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b doctest $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/doctest
+	@echo "Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the " \
+	      "results in $(BUILDDIR)/doctest/output.txt."
+
+
--- a/python/doc/_templates/globaltoc.html
+++ b/python/doc/_templates/globaltoc.html
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+<div class="globaltoc">
+
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="{{ pathto('index') }}">index</a></li>
+  <li><a href="{{ pathto('install') }}">install</a></li>
+  <li><a href="{{ pathto('api') }}">high level API</a></li>
+  <li><a href="{{ pathto('lapi') }}">low level API</a></li>
+</ul>
+<b>external links:</b>
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust">github repository</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deltachat">pypi: deltachat</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://web.libera.chat/#deltachat">#deltachat</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
--- a/python/doc/_templates/sidebarintro.html
+++ b/python/doc/_templates/sidebarintro.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<h3>deltachat {{release}}</h3>
--- a/python/doc/cffi/api.rst
+++ b/python/doc/cffi/api.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-High Level API Reference
+
+high level API reference
 ========================

 - :class:`deltachat.Account` (your main entry point, creates the
@@ -7,14 +8,28 @@ High Level API Reference
 - :class:`deltachat.Chat`
 - :class:`deltachat.Message`

+Account
+-------
+
 .. autoclass:: deltachat.Account
-   :members:
+    :members:
+
+
+Contact
+-------

 .. autoclass:: deltachat.Contact
-   :members:
+    :members:
+
+Chat
+----

 .. autoclass:: deltachat.Chat
-   :members:
+    :members:
+
+Message
+-------

 .. autoclass:: deltachat.Message
-   :members:
+    :members:
+
--- a/python/doc/cffi/install.rst
+++ b/python/doc/cffi/install.rst
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-Install
-=======
-
-Installing pre-built packages (Linux-only)
------------------------------------------
-
-If you have a Linux system you may install the ``deltachat`` binary "wheel" packages
-without any "build-from-source" steps.
-Otherwise you need to `compile the Delta Chat bindings yourself`__.
-
-__ sourceinstall_
-
-We recommend to first create a fresh Python virtual environment
-and activate it in your shell::
-
-    python -m venv env
-    source env/bin/activate
-
-Afterwards, invoking ``python`` or ``pip install`` only
-modifies files in your ``env`` directory and leaves
-your system installation alone.
-
-For Linux we build wheels for all releases and push them to a python package
-index. To install the latest release::
-
-    pip install deltachat
-
-To verify it worked::
-
-    python -c "import deltachat"
-
-.. _sourceinstall:
-
-Installing bindings from source
-------------------------------
-
-Install Rust and Cargo first.
-The easiest is probably to use `rustup <https://rustup.rs/>`_.
-
-Bootstrap Rust and Cargo by using rustup::
-
-   curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
-
-Then clone the deltachat-core-rust repo::
-
-   git clone https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust
-   cd deltachat-core-rust
-
-To install the Delta Chat Python bindings make sure you have Python3 installed.
-E.g. on Debian-based systems `apt install python3 python3-pip
-python3-venv` should give you a usable python installation.
-
-First, build the core library::
-
-   cargo build --release -p deltachat_ffi --features jsonrpc
-
-`jsonrpc` feature is required even if not used by the bindings
-because `deltachat.h` includes JSON-RPC functions unconditionally.
-
-Create the virtual environment and activate it::
-
-   python -m venv env
-   source env/bin/activate
-
-Build and install the bindings::
-
-   export DCC_RS_DEV="$PWD"
-   export DCC_RS_TARGET=release
-   python -m pip install ./python
-
-`DCC_RS_DEV` environment variable specifies the location of
-the core development tree. If this variable is not set,
-`libdeltachat` library and `deltachat.h` header are expected
-to be installed system-wide.
-
-When `DCC_RS_DEV` is set, `DCC_RS_TARGET` specifies
-the build profile name to look up the artifacts
-in the target directory.
-In this case setting it can be skipped because
-`DCC_RS_TARGET=release` is the default.
--- a/python/doc/cffi/intro.rst
+++ b/python/doc/cffi/intro.rst
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Introduction
-============
-
-CFFI bindings are available via the `deltachat <https://pypi.org/project/deltachat/>`_ Python package.
-The package contains both the Python bindings and the Delta Chat core.
-It is provided only for Linux.
-
-The ``deltachat`` Python package provides two layers of bindings for the
-core Rust-library of the https://delta.chat messaging ecosystem:
-low-level CFFI bindings to the C interface of the Delta Chat core
-and high-level Python bindings built on top of CFFI bindings.
--- a/python/doc/cffi/manylinux.rst
+++ b/python/doc/cffi/manylinux.rst
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-Building Manylinux-Based Wheels
-===============================
-
-Building portable manylinux wheels which come with libdeltachat.so
-can be done with Docker_ or Podman_.
-
-.. _Docker: https://www.docker.com/
-.. _Podman: https://podman.io/
-
-If you want to build your own wheels, build container image first::
-
-   $ cd deltachat-core-rust # cd to deltachat-core-rust working tree
-   $ docker build -t deltachat/coredeps scripts/coredeps
-
-This will use the ``scripts/coredeps/Dockerfile`` to build
-container image called ``deltachat/coredeps``.  You can afterwards
-find it with::
-
-   $ docker images
-
-This docker image can be used to run tests and build Python wheels for all interpreters::
-
-    $ docker run -e CHATMAIL_DOMAIN \
-       --rm -it -v $(pwd):/mnt -w /mnt \
-       deltachat/coredeps scripts/run_all.sh
--- a/python/doc/cffi/tests.rst
+++ b/python/doc/cffi/tests.rst
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-Running Tests
-=============
-
-Recommended way to run tests is using `scripts/run-python-test.sh`
-script provided in the core repository.
-
-This script compiles the library in debug mode and runs the tests using `tox`_.
-By default it will run all "offline" tests and skip all functional
-end-to-end tests that require accounts on real email servers.
-
-.. _`tox`: https://tox.wiki
-.. _livetests:
-
-Running "Live" Tests With Temporary Accounts
--------------------------------------------
-
-If you want to run live functional tests
-you can set ``CHATMAIL_DOMAIN`` to a domain of the email server
-that creates email accounts like this::
-
-    export CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=nine.testrun.org
-
-With this account-creation setting, pytest runs create ephemeral email accounts on the server.
-These accounts have the pattern `ci-{6 characters}@{CHATMAIL_DOMAIN}`.
-After setting the variable, either rerun `scripts/run-python-test.sh`
-or run offline and online tests with `tox` directly::
-
-    tox -e py
-
-Each test run creates new accounts.
-
-Developing the Bindings
-----------------------
-
-If you want to develop or debug the bindings,
-you can create a testing development environment using `tox`::
-
-    export DCC_RS_DEV="$PWD"
-    export DCC_RS_TARGET=debug
-    tox -c python --devenv env -e py
-    . env/bin/activate
-
-Inside this environment the bindings are installed
-in editable mode (as if installed with `python -m pip install -e`)
-together with the testing dependencies like `pytest` and its plugins.
-
-You can then edit the source code in the development tree
-and quickly run `pytest` manually without waiting  for `tox`
-to recreating the virtual environment each time.
--- a/python/doc/changelog.rst
+++ b/python/doc/changelog.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Changelog for deltachat-core's Python bindings
+==============================================
+
+.. include:: ../CHANGELOG
--- a/python/doc/conf.py
+++ b/python/doc/conf.py
@@ -1,94 +1,138 @@
-from pathlib import Path
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# devpi documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Mon Jun  3 16:11:22 2013.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys
+import os

 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 from deltachat import __version__ as release
-
 version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:2])

 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
-# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+#sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))

 # -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------

+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
 # coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
 extensions = [
-    "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
-    "sphinx.ext.autosummary",
-    "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
-    "breathe",
-    "sphinx_rtd_theme",
+    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.autosummary',
+    #'sphinx.ext.intersphinx',
+    'sphinx.ext.todo',
+    'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
+    'breathe',
+    #'sphinx.ext.githubpages',
 ]

 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
-templates_path = ["_templates"]
+templates_path = ['_templates']

 # The suffix of source filenames.
-source_suffix = ".rst"
+source_suffix = '.rst'

 # The encoding of source files.
-# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'

 # The master toctree document.
-master_doc = "index"
+master_doc = 'index'

 # General information about the project.
-project = "Delta Chat"
-copyright = "2023, Delta Chat contributors"
-author = "Delta Chat contributors"
+project = u'deltachat'
+copyright = u'2020, holger krekel and contributors'


+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
-# today = ''
+#today = ''
 # Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
-# today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'

 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
-exclude_patterns = ["sketch", "_build", "attic", "Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store"]
+exclude_patterns = ['sketch', '_build', "attic"]

 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
-# default_role = None
+#default_role = None

 # If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
-# add_function_parentheses = True
+#add_function_parentheses = True

 # If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
 # unit titles (such as .. function::).
-# add_module_names = True
+#add_module_names = True

 # If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
 # output. They are ignored by default.
-# show_authors = False
+#show_authors = False

 # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
-pygments_style = "sphinx"
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'

 # A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
-# modindex_common_prefix = []
+#modindex_common_prefix = []


 # -- breathe options ------

-breathe_projects = {"deltachat": Path("../../docs/xml/")}
+breathe_projects = {
+    "deltachat": "../../docs/xml/"
+}

 breathe_default_project = "deltachat"

 # -- Options for HTML output ---------------------------------------------------

-html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
+sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('_themes'))
+html_theme_path = ['_themes']
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+# html_theme = 'flask'
+html_theme = 'alabaster'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+html_theme_options = {
+    'logo': '_static/delta-chat.svg',
+    'font_size': "1.1em",
+    'caption_font_size': "0.9em",
+    'code_font_size': "1.1em",
+
+
+}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = ["_themes"]

 # The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
 # "<project> v<release> documentation".
-# html_title = None
+#html_title = None

 # A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
-# html_short_title = None
+#html_short_title = None

 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
 # of the sidebar.
@@ -97,34 +141,51 @@ html_logo = "_static/delta-chat.svg"
 # The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
 # docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
 # pixels large.
-html_favicon = "_static/favicon.ico"
+html_favicon = '_static/favicon.ico'

 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-html_static_path = ["_static"]
+html_static_path = ['_static']

 # If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
 # using the given strftime format.
-# html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'

 # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
 # typographically correct entities.
-# html_use_smartypants = True
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#
+html_sidebars = {
+    'index': [
+        'sidebarintro.html',
+        'globaltoc.html',
+        'searchbox.html'
+    ],
+    '**': [
+        'sidebarintro.html',
+        'globaltoc.html',
+        'relations.html',
+        'searchbox.html'
+    ]
+}
+


 # Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
 # template names.
-# html_additional_pages = {}
+#html_additional_pages = {}

 # If false, no module index is generated.
-# html_domain_indices = True
+#html_domain_indices = True

 # If false, no index is generated.
-# html_use_index = True
+#html_use_index = True

 # If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
-# html_split_index = False
+#html_split_index = False

 # If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
 html_show_sourcelink = False
@@ -133,65 +194,71 @@ html_show_sourcelink = False
 html_show_sphinx = False

 # If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-# html_show_copyright = True
+#html_show_copyright = True

 # If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
 # contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
 # base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
-html_use_opensearch = "https://doc.devpi.net"
+html_use_opensearch = 'https://doc.devpi.net'

 # This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
-# html_file_suffix = None
+#html_file_suffix = None

 # Output file base name for HTML help builder.
-htmlhelp_basename = "deltachat-python"
+htmlhelp_basename = 'deltachat-python'

 # -- Options for LaTeX output --------------------------------------------------

 latex_elements = {
-    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
-    #'papersize': 'letterpaper',
-    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
-    #'pointsize': '12pt',
-    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
-    #'preamble': '',
+# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+#'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+'pointsize': '12pt',
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#'preamble': '',
 }

 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
 latex_documents = [
-    ("index", "devpi.tex", "deltachat documentation", "holger krekel", "manual"),
+  ('index', 'devpi.tex', u'deltachat documentation',
+   u'holger krekel', 'manual'),
 ]

 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
 # the title page.
-# latex_logo = None
+#latex_logo = None

 # For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
 # not chapters.
-# latex_use_parts = False
+#latex_use_parts = False

 # If true, show page references after internal links.
-# latex_show_pagerefs = False
+#latex_show_pagerefs = False

 # If true, show URL addresses after external links.
-# latex_show_urls = False
+#latex_show_urls = False

 # Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
-# latex_appendices = []
+#latex_appendices = []

 # If false, no module index is generated.
-# latex_domain_indices = True
+#latex_domain_indices = True


 # -- Options for manual page output --------------------------------------------

 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
-man_pages = [("index", "deltachat", "deltachat documentation", ["holger krekel"], 1)]
+man_pages = [
+    ('index', 'deltachat', u'deltachat documentation',
+     [u'holger krekel'], 1)
+]

 # If true, show URL addresses after external links.
-# man_show_urls = False
+#man_show_urls = False


 # -- Options for Texinfo output ------------------------------------------------
@@ -200,38 +267,30 @@ man_pages = [("index", "deltachat", "deltachat documentation", ["holger krekel"]
 # (source start file, target name, title, author,
 #  dir menu entry, description, category)
 texinfo_documents = [
-    (
-        "index",
-        "devpi",
-        "devpi Documentation",
-        "holger krekel",
-        "devpi",
-        "One line description of project.",
-        "Miscellaneous",
-    ),
+  ('index', 'devpi', u'devpi Documentation',
+   u'holger krekel', 'devpi', 'One line description of project.',
+   'Miscellaneous'),
 ]

 # Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
-# texinfo_appendices = []
+#texinfo_appendices = []

 # If false, no module index is generated.
-# texinfo_domain_indices = True
+#texinfo_domain_indices = True

 # How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
-# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'


 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
-intersphinx_mapping = {"http://docs.python.org/": None}
+intersphinx_mapping = {'http://docs.python.org/': None}

 # autodoc options
 autodoc_member_order = "bysource"
-
-
 # always document __init__ functions
 def skip(app, what, name, obj, skip, options):
    return skip

-
 def setup(app):
    app.connect("autodoc-skip-member", skip)
+
--- a/python/doc/cffi/examples.rst
+++ b/python/doc/cffi/examples.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-Examples
+
+examples
 ========

 Once you have :doc:`installed deltachat bindings <install>`
 you need email/password credentials for an IMAP/SMTP account.
 Delta Chat developers and the CI system use a special URL to create
-temporary email accounts on `testrun.org <https://testrun.org/>`_ for testing.
+temporary e-mail accounts on [testrun.org](https://testrun.org) for testing.

 Receiving a Chat message from the command line
 ----------------------------------------------
@@ -15,11 +16,11 @@ Here is a simple bot that:

 - terminates the bot if the message `/quit` is sent

-.. include:: ../../examples/echo_and_quit.py
+.. include:: ../examples/echo_and_quit.py
    :literal:

 With this file in your working directory you can run the bot
-by specifying a database path, an email address and password of
+by specifying a database path, an e-mail address and password of
 a SMTP-IMAP account::

    $ cd examples
@@ -39,11 +40,11 @@ Here is a simple bot that:

 - tracks member additions and removals for all chat groups

-.. include:: ../../examples/group_tracking.py
+.. include:: ../examples/group_tracking.py
    :literal:

 With this file in your working directory you can run the bot
-by specifying a database path, an email address and password of
+by specifying a database path, an e-mail address and password of
 a SMTP-IMAP account::

    python group_tracking.py --email ADDRESS --password PASSWORD /tmp/db
--- a/python/doc/index.rst
+++ b/python/doc/index.rst
@@ -1,44 +1,41 @@
-Delta Chat Python bindings, new and old
-=======
+deltachat python bindings
+=========================

-`Delta Chat <https://delta.chat/>`_ provides two kinds of Python bindings
-to the `Rust Core <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust>`_:
-JSON-RPC bindings and CFFI bindings.
-When starting a new project it is recommended to use JSON-RPC bindings,
-which are used in the Delta Chat Desktop app through generated Typescript-bindings. 
-The Python JSON-RPC bindings are maintained by Delta Chat core developers. 
-Most existing bot projects and many tests in Delta Chat's own core library
-still use the CFFI-bindings, and it is going to be maintained certainly also in 2024. 
-New APIs might however only appear in the JSON-RPC bindings, 
-as the CFFI bindings are increasingly in maintenance-only mode. 
+The ``deltachat`` Python package provides two layers of bindings for the
+core Rust-library of the https://delta.chat messaging ecosystem:
+
+- :doc:`api` is a high level interface to deltachat-core.
+
+- :doc:`plugins` is a brief introduction into implementing plugin hooks.
+
+- :doc:`lapi` is a lowlevel CFFI-binding to the `Rust Core
+  <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust>`_.
+
+
+
+getting started
+---------------

 .. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
-   :caption: JSON-RPC Bindings

-   jsonrpc/intro
-   jsonrpc/install
-   jsonrpc/examples
-   jsonrpc/reference
-   jsonrpc/develop
+   install
+   examples

 .. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 2
-   :caption: CFFI Bindings
+   :hidden:

-   cffi/intro
-   cffi/install
-   cffi/examples
-   cffi/manylinux
-   cffi/tests
-   cffi/api
-   cffi/lapi
-   cffi/plugins
+   links
+   changelog
+   api
+   lapi
+   plugins
+
+..
+    Indices and tables
+    ==================
+
+    * :ref:`genindex`
+    * :ref:`modindex`
+    * :ref:`search`

-.. _`deltachat`: https://delta.chat
-.. _`deltachat-core repo`: https://github.com/deltachat
-.. _pip: http://pypi.org/project/pip/
-.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/
-.. _merlinux: http://merlinux.eu
-.. _pypi: http://pypi.org/
-.. _`issue-tracker`: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust
--- a/python/doc/install.rst
+++ b/python/doc/install.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+.. include:: ../README.rst
--- a/python/doc/jsonrpc/develop.rst
+++ b/python/doc/jsonrpc/develop.rst
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-===========
-Development
-===========
-
-To develop JSON-RPC bindings,
-clone the `deltachat-core-rust <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/>`_ repository::
-
-   git clone https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust.git
-
-Testing
-=======
-
-To run online tests, set ``CHATMAIL_DOMAIN``
-to a domain of the email server
-that can be used to create testing accounts::
-
-    export CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=nine.testrun.org
-
-Then run ``scripts/run-rpc-test.sh``
-to build debug version of ``deltachat-rpc-server``
-and run ``deltachat-rpc-client`` tests
-in a separate virtual environment managed by `tox <https://tox.wiki/>`_.
-
-Development Environment
-=======================
-
-Creating a new virtual environment
-to run the tests each time
-as ``scripts/run-rpc-test.sh`` does is slow
-if you are changing the tests or the code
-and want to rerun the tests each time.
-
-If you are developing the tests,
-it is better to create a persistent virtual environment.
-You can do this by running ``scripts/make-rpc-testenv.sh``.
-This creates a virtual environment ``venv`` which you can then enter with::
-
-   . venv/bin/activate
-
-Then you can run the tests with
-
-::
-
-    pytest deltachat-rpc-client/tests/
-
-Refer to `pytest documentation <https://docs.pytest.org/>` for details.
-
-If make the changes to Delta Chat core
-or Python bindings, you can rebuild the environment by rerunning
-``scripts/make-rpc-testenv.sh``.
-It is ok to rebuild the activated environment this way,
-you do not need to deactivate or reactivate the environment each time.
-
-Using REPL
-==========
-
-Once you have a development environment,
-you can quickly test things in REPL::
-
-   $ python
-   >>> from deltachat_rpc_client import *
-   >>> rpc = Rpc()
-   >>> rpc.start()
-   >>> dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
-   >>> system_info = dc.get_system_info()
-   >>> system_info["level"]
-   'awesome'
-   >>> rpc.close()
--- a/python/doc/jsonrpc/examples.rst
+++ b/python/doc/jsonrpc/examples.rst
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-Examples
-========
-
-Echo bot
--------
-.. include:: ../../../deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot_no_hooks.py
-    :literal:
-
-Echo bot with hooks
-------------------
-.. include:: ../../../deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot.py
-    :literal:
-
-Advanced echo bot
-----------------
-
-.. include:: ../../../deltachat-rpc-client/examples/echobot_advanced.py
-    :literal:
-
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+++ b/Show More