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chatmail-core/deltachat-rpc-client
holger krekel 461a328915 api!: remove heartbeat push notifications
Heartbeat notifications are only used on iOS for classic mail servers
but both code and privacy wise (notification server sees IP addresses from those users)
not something we want to support any longer (was discussed with bjoern).
2026-07-24 00:04:14 +02:00
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Delta Chat RPC python client

RPC client connects to standalone Delta Chat RPC server deltachat-rpc-server and provides asynchronous interface to it. rpc.start() performs a health-check RPC call to verify the server started successfully and will raise an error if startup fails (e.g. if the accounts directory could not be used).

Getting started

To use Delta Chat RPC client, first build a deltachat-rpc-server with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server or download a prebuilt release. Install it anywhere in your PATH.

Create a virtual environment if you don't have one already and activate it.

$ python -m venv env
$ . env/bin/activate

Install deltachat-rpc-client from source:

$ cd deltachat-rpc-client
$ pip install .

Testing

  1. Build deltachat-rpc-server with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server.
  2. Install tox pip install -U tox
  3. Run CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=ci-chatmail.testrun.org PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" tox.

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

Activating current checkout of deltachat-rpc-client and -server for development

Go to root repository directory and run:

$ scripts/make-rpc-testenv.sh 
$ source venv/bin/activate 

Using in REPL

Setup a development environment:

$ tox --devenv env
$ . env/bin/activate
$ 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()