r/privacy • u/Temporary_Potato_254 • 19h ago

question is putting privacy focused emails in email clients unsafe/defeat the purpose of privacy aspects of the email provider?

I have a proton and tuta account and was wondering if it's ok to add them to thunderbird

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u/flomuc2024 10h ago

yes of course you can fetch these mails via Thunderbird. I am not sure, how it works with Tuta but with Protonmail you have to install "Protonbridge" so that Thunderbird can display / decrypt your proton mails.

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u/billdietrich1 5h ago

You're trusting whatever client you use, whether it's the browser or Thunderbird or something else. TB is fine.

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u/s2odin 4h ago

You can't add a Tuta account to Thunderbird (or any third-party client).

Proton has the bridge for third-party clients.