Librem5: ProtonMail app

fagus · October 9, 2021, 7:40pm

First, as of October 2021, I was able to generate a HTML ProtonMail app, accessing ProtonMail via the phone’s web browser log in and then I was able to generate an app from the menu. Super convenient.

This app works very well, the only problem is (in my opinion) that the contacts do not get synced.
(And the problem from Gnome Contacs is that you cannot import contacts by uploading a vCard file, but that is another story. My findings there are that you have to go with Nextcloud if you can…)

Anyhow, I contacted ProtonMail and this is what I found out:

/****** begin email from proton mail ******/
Hi Fagus,

Thanks for the message.

As of this time the Bridge app is available only for desktop devices, not mobile devices.

Unfortunately we don’t have a version compiled for ARM. We would like to mention that you can run Bridge in CLI mode with protonmail-bridge -c or protonmail-bridge --cli from the terminal.

If you wish to build the Bridge from source, you can get it from the link below:

Additionally, if you so desire, you can build the Bridge app from source with make build-nogui

github.com

ProtonMail/proton-bridge/blob/master/BUILDS.md#build-bridge-without-gui

# Building ProtonMail Bridge and Import-Export app

## Prerequisites
* 64-bit OS (the go-rfc5322 module cannot currently be compiled for 32-bit OSes)
* Go 1.13
* Bash with basic build utils: make, gcc, sed, find, grep, ...
* For Windows it is recommended to use MinGW 64bit shell from [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/)
* GCC (linux, windows) or Xcode (macOS)
* Windres (windows)
* libglvnd and libsecret development files (linux)

To enable the sending of crash reports using Sentry please set the
`main.DSNSentry` value with the client key of your sentry project before build.
Otherwise, the sending of crash reports will be disabled.

## Build
In order to build Bridge or Import-Export app with Qt interface we are using
[Qt Go Binding](https://github.com/therecipe/qt).  The dependencies and
installation of this tool is part of `make build` target.  If you have issues
with installation of therecipe/qt we recommend to follow [this

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You can open the BUILDS.md file for some additional information in regard to building the Bridge app.

Do not hesitate to reach out to us for any further assistance, or if you have any additional questions.

Regards,

Milan
Customer Support
ProtonMail
/****** end email from protonmail ******/

Best, Fagus

cyber_fu · June 29, 2023, 8:44pm

Had anyone tried this for it to work with Geary?

db579 · June 29, 2023, 9:21pm

A few people have as you can see from this thread https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/323.

There’s also been some efforts to document the process here https://gist.github.com/mbohun/5b6c0054ec566d5d7961bda921bcc2b7

Unfortunately the official response from Proton is that arm64 is not a priority for them at the moment, which is a bit of a shame.