AKakyuu·Aug 15, 2025Submission
ElectronMail – Unofficial ProtonMail Desktop App
3 points · Open discussionvladimiry
ElectronMail
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vladimiry / ElectronMail
ElectronMail
Unofficial ProtonMail Desktop App
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Unofficial ProtonMail Desktop App
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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16 sourcesfwiw, there's an unofficial desktop app: https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail
In Proton is trying to become Google without your dataI used to be also but now use the protonmail app on my phone. And this on my desktop https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail
In YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerabilityI'm a customer for more than a year and never had any noticeable outages-issues so far. A few times, I encountered issues in their UI, but I'm also using the beta-version so that's to be expected.
FYI, there's also an awesome unofficial open-source Electron client for ProtonMail, ElectronMail: https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail I prefer a standalone client but still like their GUI over thunderbird et al; ElectronMail fills this gap perfectly
In Protonmail was down> Still I normally end up using the web interface for ProtonMail as it fits my workflow better and only need to have one tab open in my browser. They even have a nicer looking beta which also has an in-built dark theme at https://beta.protonmail.com
Btw, you can have both static beta web client and offline access to the email messages using https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail even being on free account as opposed to Bridge thing. The app also supports "persistent sessions" feature, unlimited full-text search (body content also gets scnned) and other fancy stuff.
In ProtonMail Bridge is now open source> You can do this on desktop if you're using Bridge app with, say, Thunderbird. Thunderbird then will do the indexing.
Bridge is for paid users only, and it's not open source thing. https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail enables full-text search support for free accounts if the "local store" enabled, described in https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/wiki/FAQ.
In Russia blocks ProtonMail> If you access ProtonMail via their web app, all that's needed to steal your password and decrypt email at will is a few quick changes to the index.html they serve you. This could be targeted to specific users, and once the password is exfiltrated, the page can be reloaded, leaving no trace of the attack. Anyone with access to ProtonMail's back end code or infrastructure could do this. So at least in the case of their web app, they could absolutely provide LE with whatever they wanted in a way that would be quite difficult for the average user to detect.
There is no such issue if you use https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail desktop app as it comes with static resources built on the CI server from the official source code repositories and embedded in then installation packages, see https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/issues/79
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for details. See here https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/blob/d974b43908e10... the "ProtonMail Version 4.0-beta Web UI" versions embedded in the most recent v4.2.1 release.
The way of verifying that the installation packages attached to the releases have been assembled from the source code is being provided, see https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/issues/183.
And finally, the app is fully open-source creature, so anyone could assembly own package.
ElectronMail 4.2.0 Enables Support for Persistent Sessions and ProtonMail 4 UI
1 points · Open discussionProtonMail / Tutanota desktop app ElectronMail gets spell checker supported
2 points · Open discussionShow HN: ElectronMail v3 – desktop app for ProtonMail and Tutanota
2 points · Open discussionNot necessarily barebones https://github.com/vladimiry/email-securely-app
In Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EUShow HN: email-securely-app 2.2.0 - Tutanota / ProtonMail desktop client
2 points · Open discussionOpen-source Tutanota/ProtonMail desktop client email-securely-app reaches v2.0.0
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