Delta Chat Rust
Deltachat-core written in Rust
Installing Rust and Cargo
To download and install the official compiler for the Rust programming language, and the Cargo package manager, run the command in your user environment:
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
Using the CLI client
Compile and run Delta Chat Core command line utility, using cargo
:
cargo run --example repl -- /path/to/db
Configure your account (if not already configured):
Delta Chat Core is awaiting your commands.
> set addr your@email.org
> set mail_pw yourpassword
> configure
Connect to your mail server (if already configured):
> connect
Create a contact:
> addcontact yourfriends@email.org
Command executed successfully.
List contacts:
> listcontacts
Contact#10: <name unset> <yourfriends@email.org>
Contact#1: Me √√ <your@email.org>
Create a chat with your friend and send a message:
> createchat 10
Single#10 created successfully.
> chat 10
Single#10: yourfriends@email.org [yourfriends@email.org]
> send hi
Message sent.
If yourfriend@email.org
uses DeltaChat, but does not receive message just
sent, it is advisable to check Spam
folder. It is known that at least
gmx.com
treat such test messages as spam, unless told otherwise with web
interface.
List messages when inside a chat:
> chat
For more commands type:
> help
Development
# run tests
$ cargo test --all
# build c-ffi
$ cargo build -p deltachat_ffi --release
Debugging environment variables
-
DCC_IMAP_DEBUG
: if set IMAP protocol commands and responses will be printed -
DCC_MIME_DEBUG
: if set outgoing and incoming message will be printed
Expensive tests
Some tests are expensive and marked with #[ignore]
, to run these
use the --ignored
argument to the test binary (not to cargo itself):
$ cargo test -- --ignored
Features
vendored
: When using Openssl for TLS, this bundles a vendored version.nightly
: Enable nightly only performance and security related features.ringbuf
: Enable the use ofslice_deque
in pgp.