Zulip has always had this weird behaviour. I remember using it a few years ago until they wouldn't let me back up the whole site because it would compromise the

Zulip has always had this weird behaviour. I remember using it a few years ago until they wouldn't let me back up the whole site because it would compromise the security of my users' messages. Sure, that was true, and I could read the messages of the whole office if I did that. But someone has to be the one who can do it and doesn't. I have been that person in my office for years, and I have never read an email that was not addressed to me, and I have no intention of doing so in the future. Anyway, those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I've got others. In any case, people in the office would be a lot safer depending on my behaviour than on the behaviour of who knows who. To this day, there are colleagues who ask me to check that they haven't received a message with (for example) the following error: hharris@ to harris@. Migadu has a catch-all function, but I don't use it. Life is hard enough dealing with my weaknesses, I just hope other people know how to deal with theirs and that's it. Nota bene: I used to host Zulip myself. I can't remember why they wanted me to join the server. Otherwise Zulip was great, but truth is a good policy. Truth is a necessary policy. You will not go wrong by telling the truth: "This service will be paid for at some point, we are testing it on you. Use it at your own risk, when the free part is over we will send you a teddy bear with a Z embroidered on it".