Sébastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org> wrote on 2022-Aug-11: > Dear all, > > Has anybody experience with using mutt to read/send e-mails through > ProtonMail, please? > Am I correct that, to make this work, one has to both pay and > install ProtonMail's bridge on ones computer so that it acts as an > IMAP/POP/SMTP gateway?
Yes, the bridge works as advertised. I use it regularlly, though not with this account. > I am a bit reluctant, to pay but perhaps even more to install this > kind of tool on my machine. Is it safe? Do you recommend any safety > measure, perhaps doing that in a VM or docker container? It sounds > heavy... Is this safe depends on your definition of safe. I don't have a compelling reason to put a mail system in a VM or container. I also don't think that anyone has remote root access to this machine. If they did, I suspect the VM or container could also be compromised. But I am not a secure computing expert. If you want to go VM or container route, you might be interested in the hydroxide project on GitHub. This also provides a bridge. However, the bridge is designed for servers not desktops. > Thanks, > > Sébastien. Good luck, Andrew
