Anyone using protonmail-bridge

[Todd Lasman]

For anyone using protonmail-bridge with thunderbird:

What kind of settings are you using to allow sending/receiving through
the firewall? I've allowed protonmail.com and 127.0.0.1 (which is the
address the bridge uses), but when the firewall is activated, I can't
send or receive anything. Turning the firewall off allows normal operation.

Thanks.

Todd

[22...@tutamail.com]

Would appreciate any thoughts on your set-up but try the following:

In the appvm that houses your thunderbird and protonmail bridge add protonmails IP(= 185.70.40.151) in the firewall settings. I have managed to get it working by further limiting it to port 443 only.

As I understand the workings of protonmail bridge and Qubes, since the bridge is in the same appvm as your thunderbird, 127.0.0.1 is all done within the appvm so it never crosses the firefall.

I am not sure of your setup but as I have used it as follows:

Thunderbird/protonmail bridge Appvm (firewall limited to 185.70.40.151) -> Firewall -> NetVM

or

Thunderbird/protonmail bridge Appvm (firewall limited to 185.70.40.151) -> Whonix-GW -> Firewall -> NetVM

I might submit a seperate question but how do you update the bridge in your current Appvm? Protonmail just updated bridge, in the past I have rebuilt my appvm but there must be an easier way to upgrade the bridge?

I hope that helps...

[Todd Lasman]

Thanks for your help. I'll try this method for getting through the firewall.

Regarding updating the bridge: my email VM is based on a fedora clone.
In that clone, I've just installed the newest version (1.1.1) of the
protonmail-bridge, which I had to download manually from the protonmail
site.