Comment by mikl
3 years ago
Yeah, Protonmail Bridge is my main source of buyer’s remorse wrt. Protonmail. I moved my family e-mail set-up to Protonmail, so I can’t just move away without having to migrate everyone else too. So now I’m just stuck with it. Weird sync issues, random CPU spikes, having to use the web-UI for anything important, etc.
Not sure why they can’t make it work, but I guess trying to make their custom encrypted mail set-up simply doesn’t translate well to IMAP’s weird idiosyncrasies.
You can "easily" switch to fastmail from Protonmail. First set your domain on fastmail with the accounts, once you're done with the new setup, the last step is to import from Protonmail. Using the Proton Mail Exporter app, you can generate a .mbox file, using fastmail importer, you can send the .mbox file. It's been working great, with over 10k emails.
Yeah, doing it for myself is no problem. It’s more that I’d have to do it for my parents and siblings as well simultaneously, since we share a domain name for e-mail. It’s not impossible, it’s just a huge hassle to move everyone over to using new apps and updating settings on their laptops. Not impossible, just impractical.
I’ve never been one to use email from a non-web application. So when I moved to Proton Mail the bridge setup seemed like a dramatically over complicated alternative to the web UI. The mobile app seems to work fine, too. I’m glad I avoided this whole mess.