asked 2020-03-21 13:36:36 +0200
Hello,
Protonmail has released a feature for paying customers allowing to use their service on regular IMAP clients. The application encrypts / decrypts emails as they are imported on the computer (https://protonmail.com/bridge/).
If we had a native version of this app, we could use Protonmail in our Jolla email client.
Regards.
Guillaume
answered 2020-03-21 14:24:15 +0200
I use Hydroxide (https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide), which I cross compiled to ARM and then run in a terminal. It works fairly well with the Sailfish native email application.
EDIT: For those of you who want to run this on your Sailfish device, here is how I did it:
Clone the hydroxide repo on your computer:
git clone https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide
Build it for your phone:
cd hydroxide/cmd/hydroxide
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build
Transfer the executable to your device and place it in ~/bin/
Follow the instructions on the Hydroxide github page to set up the bridge.
In order for it to run on login, create the file ~/.config/systemd/user/hydroxide.service on your device with the following contents:
[Unit]
Description=Hydroxide ProtonMail bridge
[Service]
ExecStart=/home/nemo/bin/hydroxide serve
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Enable and start the unit:
systemctl --user enable hydroxide
systemctl --user start hydroxide
Now, create a general email account on your device and point it to the bridge on localhost.
@b Hey mate, I just wanted to say thanks for updating your post with the how to, much appreciated. I sat down yesterday and went through your instructions and now I have a functioning ProtonMail via the native Mail client (with a few issues)
My individual issues at the moment are:
I can't receive and open email attachments.
The hydroxide.service file I created can't be enabled and started for some reason. It's just 2 commands I have to run after a reboot so no big deal really
Apart from the above, I can receive and send emails without any issues.
Thanks again for providing this
apostrof ( 2020-04-07 10:14:30 +0200 )editThanks for your instructions. managed to get it running today. It is awesome to have protonmail in the normal mail app. I also could not enable and start the service at first. I had to create the hydroxide.service file in /etc/systemd/user/ instead of ~/.config/systemd/user/. Then I could enable and start the service.
answered 2020-05-11 01:15:24 +0200
didn't PROTONMAIL opes source all their clients recently? Maybe we can get a fully native client if anyone up to it
Asked: 2020-03-21 13:36:36 +0200
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