Send a message to someone who is not in my contact list (yet)

[EcoloSweet]

Hi,

On the Signal android app I'm able to send a message to a stranger, to someone who is not in my contact list (yet). The recipient can see the message, but have to "accept" the discussion to answer. Once accepted, both are added in respective contact list (at least, it's how I understand it).

With presage, we are not able to send a message to a phone number, only to an uuid.
Is there a way to get the uuid from a phone number (with presage or otherwise), without having the recipient in our contact list ? Or is there another way to start a new conversation ?

Thank you

[gferon]

Interesting, I actually never thought about it because I mostly use it as a secondary device. I'll think about it and report back 😄

[ell1e]

Did something come of this? My apologies for bothering you, but it would be nice to have this available in clients outside of the official one.