ProtonMail Bridge is now open source

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Post by BafS » Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 6:19 PM UTC

ProtonMail Bridge is now open source
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#2

Post by s09dfhks » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

It looks like you still have to have a paid account to use this?

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Post by mfincham » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:15 AM UTC

It would be great if someone forked this to allow it to function as an XOAUTH2 IMAP proxy for other providers.

This would be particularly useful with big e-mail providers (Google, Microsoft) looking at retiring password based authentication in the near future.

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Post by cjbprime » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

For anyone else wondering what this is, looks like it downloads encrypted mail from ProtonMail, decrypts it and exposes the unencrypted mail to your email clients as an IMAP server.

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Post by VWWHFSfQ » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 2:08 AM UTC

mfincham wrote: post #3

It would be great if someone forked this to allow it to function as an XOAUTH2 IMAP proxy for other providers. This would be particularly useful with big e-mail providers (Google, Microsoft) looking at retiring password based authentication in the near future.

It would be great if you opened a pull request to allow it to function as an XOAUTH2 IMAP proxy for other providers.

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Post by AbuAssar » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 3:10 AM UTC

“ ProtonMail Bridge is a desktop application that allows you to fully integrate your ProtonMail account with any IMAP and SMTP email client, including Outlook, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail. Open sourcing the code lets anyone verify how the encryption process takes place through Bridge as the emails are transferred between your ProtonMail account and your desktop email app.”

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Post by neilv » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 3:48 AM UTC

I emailed them a while ago, to encourage pursuing an open standard for their protocol, such as through the IETF.

Open sourcing Bridge is helpful, and perhaps a step towards that.

Perhaps, with this reference, some other mail providers will implement the server-side protocol to Bridge, and some MUA developers will implement/integrate the client-side protocol.

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Post by fmakunbound » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:11 AM UTC

Dang. That is encouraging that they can peruse an open source model.

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Post by Thriptic » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:39 AM UTC

s09dfhks wrote: post #2

It looks like you still have to have a paid account to use this?

I believe it is one of the premium features, yes.

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Post by mark_l_watson » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

The new book “The Infinte Game” has an idea of ‘Just Causes’, an idea that means business, organizations, or individuals have a long term and often not totally achievable goal, that is to benefit customers and society.

I think that ProtonMail has the Just Cause of protecting privacy.