Similarly, for users who want a backup of their Proton Mail data, most native email clients let you mass export your data and download it. This essentially enables you to drag and drop an existing Gmail account into a new Proton Mail account as a way of doing “Account Import” (a dedicated account import and export tool is currently under development). In this scenario, you could simply drag messages between accounts using Thunderbird (for example). For example, many users will have both a Gmail account and a Proton Mail account. These local copies are stored on your computer, so the search features of your desktop client work normally and you can search within your encrypted emails.Īnother powerful benefit of the Bridge is being able to have multiple accounts added to an email client. The Bridge decrypts messages as they arrive in your computer and delivers them to your desktop email client. One of the powerful benefits of using the Bridge and email apps like Thunderbird, AppleMail, and Outlook is being able to use full-body text search within your encrypted emails. (new window) Full-text search, multiple accounts, import/export Today, we are finally ready to present Proton Mail Bridge (new window).
Desktop systems encompass multiple operating systems with dozens of popular email clients with their own adherents, and virtually none of them natively speak PGP, the email encryption standard upon which Proton Mail is built.Īround two years ago, we created a small task force to tackle this challenge. However, one of our goals has always been to bring easy-to-use encrypted email to desktop. In the years since, we have made many great strides towards creating usable encrypted email, first with Proton Mail’s webmail interface and then with our award-winning (new window) iOS (new window) and Android (new window) secure email apps. Since our early days working from the CERN cafeteria (new window), we have been working tirelessly to address this specific problem. Last update on NovemPublished on DecemToday we are officially launching Proton Mail Bridge, which brings easy-to-use email encryption to desktop email clients.Įver since the day that we first got the idea to create Proton Mail, one of the most enduring challenges has been how to do email security right while simultaneously making encrypted email easy enough to use for normal people.
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