cliffmccarthy

I implemented this because I was experimenting with arcanechat-tui and couldn't figure out how to start a new chat. As far as I can tell, this change does not duplicate...

No problem; that makes sense. This e-mail-based functionality was useful to me in initial testing, but after working more with the chatmail server code, I'm seeing that importing key contacts...

Or, maybe this text input field could also be used to paste in an "invite link" to start a secure chat from within the UI. (That would require further modifications...

A possible reason for not proceeding with this change (at least in its current form) is that the `chown` operation is non-idempotent and runs every time the deployment process is...

> And a changelog entry would be nice :) Added, though this will probably become a merge conflict with https://github.com/chatmail/relay/pull/608, so after one is merged, I'll rebase the other (unless...

I should clarify what I mean about `chown` above -- the command *is* in fact idempotent with regard to what it operates on, namely file ownership. When I say it...

Another possibility for how to deal with this occurred to me. What if we establish standard numeric UIDs for the users that own these directories? Then, any move between hosts...

> would be nice to build docker image with nix to make it reproducible Reproducibility is an excellent goal. All the current chatmail container work is focused on building containers...

In my work so far, I kept everything in the existing file, but I could certainly use this opportunity to move things out of `__init__.py`. Would you rather see one...

Right, there are times lots of small files can be more awkward, and sometimes it's easier to spot patterns when things are in the same file. Breaking it up into...