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chatmail-core/deltachat-rpc-client
iequidoo 42cebed9cd feat: Don't mark messages as seen on IMAP if bcc_self=0 or bot=1
bcc_self=0 means that the user disabled it or it's a chatmail setup with the only device and w/o
backups. If a backup is made someday, old messages not marked as IMAP-seen aren't a problem and new
ones are marked as IMAP-seen.

For bots, particularly multi-device ones (which are a rare case), probably no sane logic can be
built on the "seen" message status. Moreover, if the user has additionally a bot that reads incoming
messages, it doesn't mean that the user doesn't want to read them too.
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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=nine.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()