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Message #14251
Re: Telegram and message processing at Canonical server
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El día Saturday, July 18, 2015 a las 08:23:48PM +0100, Marco A. Harrendorf
> escribió:
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > from the last correspondence in regards to Telegram and other clients my
> > understanding was that a new Telegram message is processed at a
> > Canonical server and then a notification is shown in the indicator panel
> > by making use of a telepathy service.
> >
> > Does this mean that, even if I am using a private chat in Telegram,
> > Canonical could in principle read the messages since they messages
> > handled and delivered by their server?
> >
> > I would appreciate if anybody could shine some light on handling
> > notifications and the use of an intermittent Canonical server for
> > delivering notifications.
>
> I do not know if Canonical is involved in the communication of Telegram
> messages. But, I would like to have as the receiver the option to switch
> off the "feature" (call it better: violation of my privacy) that the
> sender is notified when the message reached my device. Without being
> able to switch this off, I will not use Telegram.
>
>
AFAICS that's a missing feature in the Telegram app. In fact, I just
checked telegram for android and it doesn't appear to be there either, so,
perhaps you should redirect the request to https://telegram.org/ ?
> Thanks
>
> matthias
>
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