The secure property feels like it should be true. However, there are a couple gotchas to watch out for. The transporter variable calls a Nodemailer function that takes in your SMTP settings. For now, let's look at the config to understand what's going on.
That's a good thing, and you'll see why later. The above async function handles configuration, but keep in mind it's not a self-calling function. Let's take a look at a sample configuration and we'll walk through what's going on.Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode This is what you'll need to configure Nodemailer. From there, you can access the IMAP and SMTP Settings: Once you've done so, you'll have a desktop tray app running in your menu bar. When you download the bridge, you'll be prompted to log in with your ProtonMail credentials. Let's take a look at the desktop bridge first. As long as you, or users of your application that want to use ProtonMail to send emails through your app, have the desktop bridge running, you can send encrypted emails through ProtonMail from Nodemailer. If you are a developer who wants to use a ProtonMail account along with Nodemailer (the NodeJS-based email sending tool), it would seem at first blush that you can't do it. But this solution also enables something else. This client silently runs in the background on your machine and will automatically encrypt and decrypt emails, thus allowing you to use desktop email clients, like Apple Mail, for example. But, fortunately, there's a solution to this one.įor paying customers, ProtonMail offers a desktop bridge client. Another drawback to ProtonMail is its seeming incompatibility with clients that use SMTP settings. I've (mostly) solved this by simply using Apple Calendar.
I missed many calls because I was trying to track invites manually. So, if you're coming from Outlook or Gmail, you're going to be seriously disappointed here. That being said, using ProtonMail does have its drawbacks. The whole implementation very much drives a lot of what I have done and what I plan to do with Graphite. I'm attracted to ProtonMail's simple way of obfuscating complex encryption. In fact, I moved all Graphite email to a ProtonMail Pro account last year. This might be a very niche article, but it's one worth writing.
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