[em-bee]

a long time ago i envisioned that mail clients should really display mails as a conversation just like you describe. a list with all my contacts. and opening the contact gives me all emails received and sent with that contact.

if you want to use different aliases in deltachat, i think the best option for now is to create different deltachat profiles for each. you can have multiple profiles active at once and you get notifications for all of them, you only have to switch profiles to see all the messages. switching profiles is a single click and feels like switching folders in traditional mail clients.

[miroljub]

Yes, but the issue is they all share the same inbox, and my email server doesn't support server-side incoming filters so I can distribute mails to separate inbox folders that would be monitored by DeltaChat.

Alias is a standard email feature. If Delta Chat want's to be usable as a general mail client, aliases should just work.

[em-bee]

you are right. i haven't thought about the shared inbox. deltachat would have to have support for that in some form.