ProtonMail/proton-bridge
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Proton Mail Bridge application
14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-11-29 · latest 2026-10-31
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ProtonMail mangles emails in a way that they are impossible to download as they were delivered to their servers, meaning MIME signatures cannot be verified, because the emails are altered. Old issue, affects also web UI not only bridge:…
comment by hecturchi · 2026-10-31 · in I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence -
…The fact that they deleted public history of comments really flares my unsubscribe feelings. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge As for the "why is bridge bad / why were you searching for issues": keeping it logged in on a headless…
comment by willis936 · 2026-01-24 · in Proton spam and the AI consent problem -
Using an email client requires a Proton Bridge thing that acts as a local IMAP/SMTP proxy: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge As if disabling the issue tracker and stonewalling pull requests wasn't bad enough, seeing how it is…
comment by balamatom · 2025-09-12 · in Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency -
Have you seen this thing? https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge I'm not too familiar with it, but we're building Marco ( https://marcoapp.io ) and a customer just showed it to me recently.
comment by isaachinman · 2025-05-18 · in Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law -
https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
comment by bsx · 2024-10-11 · in End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem -
…them in their scheme. This software is open source and can be inspected and/or built locally. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
comment by booi · 2023-08-18 · in ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 – Still Secure and Private? -
…to a behaviour that ProtonMail has of dropping all plaintext email if any mime-encoded parts exist. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/26#issuec... I'm actually more shocked knowing that they drop plain text if there is a…
comment by stonekyx · 2023-07-08 · in ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails -
…issue is unlikely to actually matter to you. That said, Proton's response to this issue is joke. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/26
comment by ravenstine · 2023-07-08 · in ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails -
There is also a 2-year old issues: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/180 Proton makes it hard for open-source software developer to send patches and they don't care. https://git-send-email.io/#step-2 Some quote from it. >…
comment by twleo · 2023-07-08 · in ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails -
…Mail Bridge (which is open source) claims to also host the source for the Import Export app. Here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge Briefly looking at the files and code it's hard to tell whether that is still the case, but it's…
comment by flupe · 2022-11-02 · in Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares -
…is far from completion. Meanwhile people are still discovering that their emails are disappearing. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/29 https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/220
comment by Siyo · 2022-09-05 · in Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest