Deltachat-android: Delete Chat - Why are Messages not deleted on Server?
If I delete a Chat, DC told me, that the messages not be deleted on Server. Why?
At the moment, I must delete every single Message from a chat, to clean up my inbox on server. Thats a lot of work, to clean up the server, if I had a long chat.
When I close DC and delete all chats, for example in Thunderbird, start a new chat, with the same mail adress, all messages from the old chat, shown in DC. On Server, where I deleted them with Thunderbird, they will never been shown again.
gitkald
All 5 comments
It would be better to have an option to delete the files on the server or leave them there (for later reuse, if one again joins the chat). Maybe it would be even better, if one had a function to export the while chat into a file. In that case, all files could be deleted from the server always.
kollokollo
on 31 Jul 2017
If I delete a Chat, DC told me, that the messages not be deleted on Server. Why?
This is because also "normal E-Mails" may be shown in the chat and deleting them would be at least unexpected.
r10s
on 24 Aug 2017
so add an option then?
zoff99
on 25 Sep 2017
Well this issue is about _why_, I think this is answered.
An option to delete all messages on a chat on a server may result in the same problems - users might not expect non-chat-messages being deleted when deleting a chat. I we delete only true chat messages, other users may wonder why some messages are deleted and others are not. Other issues are about not to display non-chat messages at all, if we do this, the deletion problem here is solved.
So, for now, I would not add an option until there are more general questions pending.
However, as a simple workaround, I could imagine a "Select all messages" in a chat which can then be deleted explicitly before the chat is deleted itself. This would solve the problem in a way, the user has selected the messages to delete himself and _sees_ what will be deleted. Maybe this is a fine solution for all cases. If so, maybe we should open a feature request for this.
r10s
on 25 Sep 2017
If so, maybe we should open a feature request for this.
It already exist:
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/76
r10s
on 25 Sep 2017
Related issues
adbenitez
路
4Comments
adbenitez
路
4Comments
r10s
路
5Comments
gerroon
路
3Comments
travisfw
路
5Comments
Most helpful comment
It would be better to have an option to delete the files on the server or leave them there (for later reuse, if one again joins the chat). Maybe it would be even better, if one had a function to export the while chat into a file. In that case, all files could be deleted from the server always.