alt Hacker News> chatmail
So I went to [0] and [1] and still cannot understand what it is. This is a problem with a lot of opensource: landing pages fail to explain the "what". I get we're all techies and love to dive straight into the "how", but it really doesn't help when you're not in the "chatmail" club.
it is a messaging infrastructure with clients and relays that's based on SMTP as the message protocol. technically a chatmail client is an SMTP/IMAP client. and while you can use any SMTP server (i do), the relays they provide are designed to be more privacy focused (no logging or storage of messages and they only allow encrypted messages and connections).