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@link2xt link2xt commented Jan 19, 2026

Messages are not converted to HTML when saving, but when loading.

There is a new API to disable truncation.

Closes #7718

@link2xt link2xt force-pushed the link2xt/stop-message-truncation branch from 40ab705 to 1d1f074 Compare January 19, 2026 22:34
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I think to merge this we need corresponding UI PRs, at least in iOS long messages were problematic in the past deltachat/deltachat-ios#1634

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r10s commented Jan 20, 2026

moreover, we need to take care not to harm the existing, shipped ecosystem

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link2xt commented Jan 21, 2026

We need corresponding Android PR. For Desktop, iOS, Ubuntu Touch, possible solution is to keep truncating the message, but on load rather than when saving to the database.

@link2xt link2xt force-pushed the link2xt/stop-message-truncation branch 2 times, most recently from ba78c68 to 567861b Compare January 21, 2026 06:20
@link2xt link2xt force-pushed the link2xt/stop-message-truncation branch from 567861b to 2366c33 Compare January 21, 2026 07:00
@link2xt link2xt changed the title feat: stop truncating message texts Truncate messages on load and add an option to disable it Jan 21, 2026
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long messages get converted to html type and this is problematic

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