Module message

Messages and their identifiers.

Structs

• Message
  An object representing a single message in memory. The message object is not updated. If you want an update, you have to recreate the object.
• MsgId
  Message ID, including reserved IDs.

Enums

• MessageState
  State of the message. For incoming messages, stores the information on whether the message was read or not. For outgoing message, the message could be pending, already delivered or confirmed.
• MessengerMessage 🔒
• Viewtype
  How a message is primarily displayed.

Functions

• delete_msgs
  Deletes requested messages by moving them to the trash chat and scheduling for deletion on IMAP.
• estimate_deletion_cnt
  Estimates the number of messages that will be deleted by the options delete_device_after or delete_server_after.
• get_by_rfc724_mids 🔒
  Given a list of Message-IDs, returns the most relevant message found in the database.
• get_mime_headers
  Get the raw mime-headers of the given message. Raw headers are saved for incoming messages only if set_config(context, "save_mime_headers", "1") was called before.
• get_msg_read_receipts
  Returns contacts that sent read receipts and the time of reading.
• get_request_msg_cnt
  Returns the number of messages in contact request chats.
• get_unblocked_msg_cnt
  The number of messages assigned to unblocked chats
• get_vcard_summary 🔒
  Returns the 1st part of summary text (i.e. before the dash if any) for a valid DeltaChat vCard.
• guess_msgtype_from_suffix 🔒
• markseen_msgs
  Marks requested messages as seen.
• normalize_text 🔒
  Returns text for storing in the msgs.txt_normalized column (to make case-insensitive search possible for non-ASCII messages).
• rfc724_mid_exists 🔒
  See rfc724_mid_exists_ex().
• rfc724_mid_exists_ex 🔒
  Returns MsgId and “sent” timestamp of the most recent message with given rfc724_mid (Message-ID header) and bool expr result if such messages exists in the db.
• set_msg_failed 🔒
• update_msg_state 🔒