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Unfortunately, we can't easily offer direct IMAP access, because no external email client offers support for everything we need and use in OpenPGP (such as for
by twiss 2y ago
Unfortunately, we can't easily offer direct IMAP access, because no external email client offers support for everything we need and use in OpenPGP (such as for automatic forwarding, which is currently just a draft [1], but we hope will become an RFC in the future).
That's why Proton Bridge exists: to be able to decrypt all emails, including internally forwarded ones, and present them to the email client unencrypted - and vice versa when sending. Obviously this involves some muching of the emails, for better or worse.
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wussler-openpgp-forwarding https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wussler-openpgp-...
- tristan957 2y agoIf the Bridge always has to exist, it would be great if Proton gave it more love. We don't have any WebDAV support right now, which means I can't see my calendars in GNOME Calendar or my contacts in GNOME Contacts. JMAP would be a great addition. Adding support for various IMAP RFCs would be great too. As it is right now, the IMAP is pretty much unusable in my email client of choice. I'm pretty much forced to use Thunderbird due to the RFCs that just aren't supported by the Bridge (gluon). Even going to the gluon repo, the last commit was 2 months ago :(. I don't understand how I as a power user who sends plain text emails is supposed to survive on Proton Mail. I can't use it for mailing list development, at all. Fastmail just seems to be blowing Proton Mail out of the water in terms of IMAP/SMTP/JMAP. They are actively working on the protocols. Proton doesn't seem to be. Link: https://github.com/ProtonMail/gluon/issues/378 https://github.com/ProtonMail/gluon/issues/378
- altairprime 2y agoWhat is your email client of choice? What specific IMAP features are missing from Proton Bridge that you need in order to use it?