the showstopper issue - public Chatmail relays having very low storage quotas (I believe 100MB by default, which isn't a lot of animated GIFs) - is encouragement for me to eventually run my own Chatmail relay.
to be fair, the Delta Chat help group I'm in which blew my quota has over 300 users.
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in reply to selfhosting.couchsurfing • • •The "100MB" is an early default and it should be increased to better match current standard practises.
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in reply to Delta Chat • • •@delta I agree that 100MB is very low, and I think animated GIFs in the very large group had something to do with the issue. there also was some kind of bot mass adding users, not sure how much storage each of those messages takes up.
in my case I have 2 devices, phone and laptop, which caused the delete-from-server setting to be set to automatic rather than immediate, but it appears that the automatic setting doesn't delete messages right away once both clients (which are online 24/7 for the most part) have seen them, so I blew thru the quota pretty quickly just being in that big group because messages piled up on the server.
once I used the Clear Group function, it freed 75MB of space immediately.