| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/protonmail-bridge.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | protonmail-bridge |
| Description: | Integrate ProtonMail paid account with any program that supports IMAP and SMTP (Qt desktop application) |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge |
| Keywords: | bridge email mail protonmail protonmail-bridge |
| Licenses: | GPL-3.0-only |
| Submitter: | aimileus |
| Maintainer: | ali.molaei (PMBridge-Devs, BenTheTechGuy, carsme) |
| Last Packager: | BenTheTechGuy |
| Votes: | 109 |
| Popularity: | 4.74 |
| First Submitted: | 2018-03-02 16:03 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-03-21 17:22 (UTC) |
@kausban I changed it to be a link instead of bash script, thanks
To have a cli build, I don't understand fully how you use it in cli mode, how can you login that way? BTW, you can use protonmail-bridge -c to use it in cli mode, If you don't want to have qt dependencies, I suggest to create a protonmail-bridge-cli package (I see you have some packages under maintenance too, so you can :D). It cannot be in this package.
@kausban: When using protonmail bridge without the gui, is it available as a daemon/user service? Or does it need to be launched by a console command and then turned off? In other words, would it be accessible via ssh when the X-server is down?
First off, thanks for already creating the PKGBUILD to build from source. 2 points:
I noticed that the "protonmail-bridge" script installed in "/usr/bin/" is unnecessarily using bash (minor). More importantly prevents passing any command line arguments. May I suggest creating a softlink to the binary as follows:
ln -s "/opt/protonmail-bridge/proton-bridge" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/protonmail-bridge"
I run the bridge with no gui. For such use it can be built without the qt, dejavu and theme dependencies. A few commented options in the PKGBUILD can enable this. I used the following: http://ix.io/2ikP. Basically just added this in the prepare function:
sed -i 's/pmapi_prod/pmapi_prod nogui/' Makefile
This package is now being built from source. if you want the binary version, use protonmail-bridge-bin package
I told them it was written in Go, but they didn't believe me.
regarding to https://protonmail.com/blog/bridge-open-source/ the bridge is now open source available here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
@blackpoll this package was not being updated, so I created -bin package, after that this repo became orphan and I adopted it, right now, there is no difference between this package and the -bin package
I emailed the official ProtonMail bridge team and gave access to both repos to them. once bridge become open-source, -bin will be downloading the bridge and packaging it from binary and this repo will build it from source
I don't understand which to install between this and the -bin version? Why are there two versions and what are the use cases for each one?
I emailed the ProtonMail team to see if I can use this repo for building from source and keep the -bin package for binary download, waiting for their answer
@mprom thanks for letting me know, I think the arch linux convention is that packages that are not building from source and just coping a binary should have a -bin at the end of them, but this repo have move votes and users using it, so, I don't know what to do with these packages and keep which one, maybe I keep both for a while and then remove one of them
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carsme commented on 2023-12-08 22:34 (UTC) (edited on 2023-12-08 22:35 (UTC) by carsme)
NOTICE: This pkgbase is now produces two packages:
protonmail-bridge-core: Containing the core daemon & CLI program.protonmail-bridge: Containing the Qt desktop application.The second package depends on the first. If you don't have a need for the desktop application, you can now choose to only install
protonmail-bridge-core.This packaging change should be seamless and no action should be required before or after the upgrade.
Thanks to @ali.molaei and @BenTheTechGuy for the feedback regarding this change!
bthompson commented on 2021-06-17 04:13 (UTC)
Just having pass installed with a key set up wasn't enough for me, I had to follow this: https://pychao.com/2020/06/10/update-on-using-protonmail-bridge-on-headless-wordpress-linux-servers/