

This piece will delve deeper into two of the bigger names: Skiff Mail and ProtonMail. While there are countless great email clients available today, the privacy-first, secure, and end-to-end encrypted email market is smaller and varies significantly on usability and feature sets. Protonmail PAID account holders can use '''mail''.''protonmail''.''com''' as IMAP mail-server name/address, & secure/encrypted port is 993, and "SSL/TLS" encryption.Tens of millions of people are switching from privacy-invasive email providers like Gmail and Microsoft Outlook, but they frequently do not know about alternative secure email services that are available, popular, and easy to use. Then inside TB's mail-account (for "free" protonmal account), you will have to specify '''127.0.0.1''' as IMAP mail-server name/address, and specify same '''127.0.0.1''' as SMTP mail-server name/address, and select port 1143 for IMAP mail-server, & select port 1025 for SMTP mail-server. You can see the addon/extension that are used to, for accessing "Mail''.''com", outlook/hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc.Īlso see Protonmail doc/support info,, you may need their "Bridge" app. Not sure about their SMTP mail-server for paid account. com as IMAP mail-server name/address, & secure/encrypted port is 993, and "SSL/TLS" encryption. Protonmail PAID account holders can use mail. Then inside TB's mail-account (for "free" protonmal account), you will have to specify 127.0.0.1 as IMAP mail-server name/address, and specify same 127.0.0.1 as SMTP mail-server name/address, and select port 1143 for IMAP mail-server, & select port 1025 for SMTP mail-server. That app will create+allow to use two local mail access ports (let us assume: port 1143 for IMAP, port 1025 for for SMTP). com", outlook/hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc.Īlso see Protonmail doc/support info, here, you may need their "Bridge" app.

You can see the addon/extension that are used to Access Webmail Sites Via Web-Browser-Tab Inside Thunderbird, for accessing "Mail. WMSP (webmail) based (free) email account can be accessed over HTTPS based web-browser-tab inside TB email-client. When/if you 1st opened paid account then they have sent an email with mail-server name/address info, use mail-server from that.

I think, protonmail IMAP/POP mail-server service is for paid type account. If your account is free type, then TB as IMAP/POP email-client, cannot get/send email. Protonmail is a WMSP (webmail service provider). I'm note sure, but i think, protonmail does not have mail-server service for free account.
