# How to initiate a chat from normal email client **URL:** \ **Category:** Mutual Help\ **Created:** [April 10, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/how-to-initiate-a-chat-from-normal-email-client/365 "2019-04-10T06:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![testbird](https://forum.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@testbird](https://forum.delta.chat/u/testbird)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/how-to-initiate-a-chat-from-normal-email-client/365/5 "2019-04-10T15:23:37Z")
> [@Ukhara](#): > > So i have no chance to start a chat. I only can reply? Unfortunately, currently, there is still no way to start a chat if using a classic email client, yet. So deltachat users can not be reached by known contacts (those, one has exchanged emails with before). The only workaround currently, is for the deltachat user to _manually check_ for your message in the email inbox (not nemed well as “Contact Requests” in the menu). The following is a suggestion that amoung other nice things, should also allow receiving certain email messages in a chat: > [@Classic email listening: "start-chat" metrics for classic email client messages (max. length & newlines)](https://support.delta.chat/t/classic-email-listening-identifying-start-chat-messages-from-classic-email-clients-max-length-newlines/348): > > Hi there, formal emails have at least 4 newline characters, thus less newlines could identify start-chat email messages, together with a reduced max. character limit of say 250. This “email text” post, for example, has 344 characters, should it prompt a “Start chat?” question, by default, if the “cheers and name” are on a single line instead? Cheers, testbird I would say above message is too long for considering it a chat candidate, by default, even if the greeting at the end would only be … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.delta.chat/t/how-to-initiate-a-chat-from-normal-email-client/365)._