ProtonMail was founded in 2013 by scientists who met at CERN and were drawn together by a shared vision of a more secure and private Internet. Since then, ProtonMail has evolved into a global effort to protect civil liberties and build a more secure Internet, with team members also hailing from Caltech, Harvard, ETH Zurich and many other. At the login screen, you have to enter the username and password that you registered at ProtonVPN or ProtonMail. Also, you can see that you have a few options like “Remember Login” and “Start on Boot“. When both of these options are enabled, the Mac VPN application will start on boot without any need to.
ProtonMail Bridge
The ProtonMail Bridge is an application that runs on your computer in the background and seamlessly encrypts and decrypts your mail as it enters and leaves your computer. It allows for full integration of your ProtonMail account with any program that supports IMAP and SMTP such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail.
Before you configure Outlook to use ProtonMail, you must first download and install the Bridge on your computer.
Back to Bridge Overview Outlook 2016 (macOS)
Configuring the Bridge to work with Outlook 2016 for macOS can be done in a few steps, outlined below:
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Configuration Guide
Protonmail For My Mac
Navigation- 1. Accounts
- 2. Other Email
- 3. Add Account
- 4. Accounts
- 5. Advanced
- 6. More Options
- 7. Folders
- 8. Drafts / Fetching
- 9. Junk
- 10. Addresses 1
- 11. Addresses 2
- 12. Success!
To configure the bridge with Outlook 2016, first open the application and navigate to the
Tools
tab, then click the Accounts
button in the upper left. Click the Plus icon in the bottom left and choose
Enter your email address.
Choose
New Account...
.Enter your email address.
Choose
IMAP/POP
. Enter all of the details from the bridge that you got earlier. Note: The password you must use is automatically generated from the bridge. Do not use your Login or Mailbox password.
The password generated by the Bridge app can be found by by clicking on Mailbox configuration under your account username.
When everything is added, click
The password generated by the Bridge app can be found by by clicking on Mailbox configuration under your account username.
When everything is added, click
Add Account
Outlook requires configuring your draft settings manually. Click the
Tools
menu (top of the screen) and select Accounts
. Click your account and then the
Advanced
button at the bottom. Click
More Options...
. Select Use Incoming Server Info
from the Authentication
dropdown. Click the
Folders
tab at the top of the screen and locate the Drafts section. Make sure that drafts are kept 'On My Computer' as seen in the screenshot. Note: Drafts are saved on your local device only. If you create a draft in Outlook on your laptop it will only be saved and accessible on that device. Your newly added account will fetch your emails within 5 minutes. You can send emails without any delay. You can now proceed with configuring your Account settings on the next slide.
If you would like to disable your client spam filters and rely soley on your ProtonMail spam filters make sure the Safe Senders and Blocked Senders lists are empty.
However, keeping your client’s spam filters enabled will offer the advantage of additional spam filtering that is able to utilize the text of all of your messages and will add detected spam senders to your ProtonMail blacklist.
However, keeping your client’s spam filters enabled will offer the advantage of additional spam filtering that is able to utilize the text of all of your messages and will add detected spam senders to your ProtonMail blacklist.
Note: In separate addresses mode every IMAP account that you set up with the Bridge is address-specific, and will only be able to send/receive emails from the address it is set up with. You can add any number of addresses to Outlook but wait for one address to download before adding another.
Note: In combined address mode Outlook has no way to add the other addresses to send with.
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