whisperfish / presage

A high-level Rust library to help write clients for the Signal Messenger.
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Send a message to someone who is not in my contact list (yet) #187

Open EcoloSweet opened 1 year ago

EcoloSweet commented 1 year ago

Hi,

On the Signal android app I'm able to send a message to a stranger, to someone who is not in my contact list (yet). The recipient can see the message, but have to "accept" the discussion to answer. Once accepted, both are added in respective contact list (at least, it's how I understand it).

With presage, we are not able to send a message to a phone number, only to an uuid. Is there a way to get the uuid from a phone number (with presage or otherwise), without having the recipient in our contact list ? Or is there another way to start a new conversation ?

Thank you

gferon commented 1 year ago

Interesting, I actually never thought about it because I mostly use it as a secondary device. I'll think about it and report back 😄