Then, you’ll need to configure your email client, which ProtonMail provides these instructions for.Ībove: Setting up ProtonMail on Thunderbird Once you’ve installed the ProtonMail Bridge application, you’ll be prompted to enter your ProtonMail credentials within the app.
In this way, standard email clients running IMAP, which don’t natively support end-to-end encryption, can achieve end-to-end encryption without modifications.” “The Bridge communicates with ProtonMail’s encrypted email server via our API, which supports end-to-end encryption, while email clients can communicate directly with the Bridge via standard IMAP. “The app acts as a local IMAP server running on the user’s local machine,” a spokesperson said. But ProtonMail told VentureBeat that this also makes it far easier to deploy in an enterprise environment. This holds a number of advantages for example, it doesn’t interfere with the client’s behavior and so isn’t likely to cause any disruptions to a user’s workflow. ProtonMail Bridge is an application rather than a plugin for your desktop email client. It’s also only available to paid ProtonMail users. It’s worth noting here that ProtonMail Bridge should work through any IMAP email client however, official support is extended only to the aforementioned three applications on Windows and Mac, with Linux support coming in early 2018.
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