Comment by chuckdotis

I've been a paid Protonmail user for a while now, but it seems like if you don't use their webmail site or their mobile app, you don't get a very good experience.

The Protonmail Bridge with Thunderbird (the only somewhat supported desktop mail client on Linux) has always been buggy at times, such as archiving not working as expected, or creating a new mail subfolder in Thunderbird creates a parent folder with a "/" in front of it in web mail.

I understand there's probably some difficulty keeping everything E2E encrypted on the desktop side of things, but Thunderbird feels crippled if you want to use it with Protonmail/Bridge. For example, calendar doesn't work at all.

I love what Protonmail has been trying to do and have done, but all I really want is to be able to use a desktop mail client with calendar, and the Protonmail Bridge is not there yet. My subscription is up in January, so I may switch to something like Fastmail for the time being.