Comment by s3p

3 years ago

Protonmail doesn't support email clients with POP/IMAP like most hosting companies do. They only let you use their proprietary apps on mobile. Desktop users can log in to the website or use Bridge which is just a hacky way of creating a local Protonmail server that your email client thinks is a hosting provider. I could never get it set up on my machine so I just used the browser implementation. sigh.

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_def  3 years ago

They aren't offering IMAP as an email provider? What's up with that?

  • bakoo  3 years ago

    If they offer IMAP, they would also need to decrypt your data on their side, which I'm happy they go to lenghts to avoid.

    This is a case of Proton sacrificing convenience for privacy. If the former is more important for you than the latter, there are better alternatives out there.

  • qu4z-2  3 years ago

    I don't know, and it's why I moved off them. Additionally, the Bridge is only available for Windows/Linux/Mac, so if you want to use your own email client on mobile, I guess your only option is to VPN into your home network and expose a bridge instance there or something. No hard feelings, but I can't really recommend them as an email host if what you're looking for is... an email host.