On: COI – Chat Over IMAP

[enough]

You can also run your own mail servers, even non-technical people could do that with for example https://thehelm.com/. Haven't tried it out myself, though.

[deadbunny → enough]

Which solves nothing if the other party's email is provided by Google. Google is still getting your chats.

[richardwhiuk → deadbunny]

XMPP and Matrix other people can host their servers on Google as well.

Fundamentally, if you don't trust the decisions of the person you are talking with, you can't guarantee the privacy of your chats.

[elvecinodeabajo → richardwhiuk]

You're forgetting E2E encryption.

[qot → elvecinodeabajo]

Delta.chat supports E2E with other Delta users and Autocrypt email clients, so the point stands.