{"id":19787,"date":"2017-12-08T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19787"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:49:28","slug":"protonmail-introduces-imapsmtp-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/protonmail-introduces-imapsmtp-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"ProtonMail Introduces IMAP\/SMTP Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/12\/06\/protonmail-bridge-outlook-thunderbird-apple-mail\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/12\/06\/protonmail-bridge-outlook-thunderbird-apple-mail\/\"><p>Basically, the downloadable Bridge app enables ProtonMail users to access their encrypted email accounts using their favorite email client, without compromising on the security provided by the end-to-end encrypted service, and without needing to modify their email application. At the same time, local copies of the emails are stored on the user&rsquo;s computer, allowing them to use the search features of their email client as normal.<\/p><p>To achieve this, the Bridge app functions like a local IMAP\/SMTP email server capable of communicating with the remote ProtonMail server to encrypt and decrypt incoming\/outgoing messages locally. In this way, it translates end-to-end encrypted email data into a language that any email client can understand, thus &ldquo;bridging&rdquo; the gap between ProtonMail&rsquo;s end-to-end encryption and a user&rsquo;s standard email client.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Basically, the downloadable Bridge app enables ProtonMail users to access their encrypted email accounts using their favorite email client, without compromising on the security provided by the end-to-end encrypted service, and without needing to modify their email application. At the same time, local copies of the emails are stored on the user&rsquo;s computer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[150,14,424,30,32,1529,355,1435,481],"class_list":["post-19787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-email","tag-emailclient","tag-imap","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-13","tag-privacy","tag-protonmail","tag-smtp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19788,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions\/19788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}