# Auto-switch for sending relays

**URL:** <https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Tags:** censorship, multi-transport\
**Created:** [May 7, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194 "2026-05-07T13:16:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![us70omu3h9jk65ptmzqh](https://forum.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ee59a6/32.png) [@us70omu3h9jk65ptmzqh](https://forum.delta.chat/u/us70omu3h9jk65ptmzqh)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194/1 "2026-05-07T13:16:19Z")

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In my country it is now common to turn on “whitelisting” on mobile operators so that only certain state-funded services are accessible, including mail providers. Problem is that when sending chatmail relay is inaccessable, you need to manually go into Settings\>Advanced Settings\>Relays\>Enter Password and only then you can change relay to state mail provider to be able to send messages. Tedious doing it once but when you get home and want better sending speeds - go do everything again. Little annoyance for me and a dealbreaker for everyone else in my family.

## Expected behavior

When sending relay is not accessable, automatically choose from available to become new sending relay (or from preselected)

## Actual behavior

Need to go through tedious process of manually selecting relay when messages are stuck sending

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194/2 "2026-06-15T14:15:12Z")

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without being able to say a concrete date or so: something like this is planned in the not-so-far-future, stay tuned 🙂

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194/3 "2026-10-03T11:01:41Z")

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yeah 🎉 with v2.62, if one relay goes down, another one is selected automatically to get your message out.

corresponding PR with the code and a lot of tech-talk:

> <https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/8607>
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> This is the issue for making Smtp::connect\_configured() select the transport wit…hout \`configured\_addr\` (https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/8572)
> First step is to make it possible to switch the sending transport without losing the message queue, but i will keep it in this issue as well even if it is a separate PR.
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> Previous related PR: https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/8345

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194/4 "2026-10-03T11:01:50Z")

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194/5 "2026-10-03T11:02:31Z")

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/auto-switch-for-sending-relays/5194/6 "2026-10-10T11:03:34Z")

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