What you can do with relaii

Bring your team’s messages and files together in a Space you control. Use it in a browser or a relaii app, and share selected channels with partner organisations.

Conversations

• Public and private channels, direct messages and group chats.
• Read conversation history, edit or delete your own messages, and ask a moderator for help managing channel content.
• See unread conversations and return to your last read position.
• @mentions, with a separate badge so a mention is not buried in a busy channel.
• Typing indicators and online presence.
• Format messages with Markdown: bold, italic, code, quotes, lists and links.

Files

• Attachments up to a size you set, on the server's own disk by default.
• Any S3-compatible bucket instead, if you want durability or capacity you do not have locally.
• Upload files from the browser or app and open them from the conversation.
• Files are available to people who have access to the channel.
• Optional virus scanning with ClamAV.

Integrations

• Incoming webhooks, one per channel, posting as their own bot identity.
• A one-field payload — text is all that is required.
• An external_id that makes retries safe: a CI system that sends the same delivery twice does not post twice.
• Per-webhook rate limits, rotation and revocation.

curl -X POST https://chat.example.no/hooks/YOUR_SECRET \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"text": "Deploy finished", "sender": "CI", "external_id": "build-112"}'

Connect an incoming webhook →

Search

Search conversations you have access to. Add from:, in:, before:, after: or has:file to narrow the results. See search examples in the user guide.

Administration

• First-run setup in the browser: the first account created becomes the owner.
• Users, roles, invitations and email domain rules.
• Federation: peers, fingerprints, shared channels, and the delivery queue when something is not syncing.
• A storage panel that shows what is used, what the limit is and why.
• Review administrative actions in the audit log.
• Check the status page to find services that need attention.

The client

Open your Space address to use relaii in a browser. On a larger screen, keep your channel list alongside the conversation; on a phone, move between the list and the selected conversation.

In the Apple and Android apps, you can read messages already downloaded while offline. Reconnect to send messages and load new activity. See notifications and offline reading for details.

Before you choose relaii

Your organisation runs and maintains its own Space, including storage, backups and account access. Start with the installation requirements if you are setting up a new Space, or ask your administrator for an invitation if your team already has one.

relaii focuses on messaging and file sharing; voice calls, video calls and screen sharing require a separate service. Messages are encrypted in transit and at rest, but are accessible to the running server and its administrator. See privacy and account security.