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SMTP: A Conversation

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    This was a deep, deep rabbit hole I fell into yesterday while trying to get my Nextcloud instance to send emails. Hoping that at the very least it can be entertaining, if not educational!

    This was a deep, deep rabbit hole I fell into yesterday while trying to get my Nextcloud instance to send emails. Hoping that at the very least it can be entertaining, if not educational!

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      It was indeed an interesting read, thanks for sharing. Why did you not just put nextcloud and ProtonMail bridge in the same vm? Or, better yet, why not create a new docker layer on top of the...

      It was indeed an interesting read, thanks for sharing.

      Why did you not just put nextcloud and ProtonMail bridge in the same vm? Or, better yet, why not create a new docker layer on top of the nextcloud image that adds ProtonMail bridge? I know that it would technically be against the spirit of micro services, but I think this would be an ok exception.

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        Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :) I actually have a couple of other services that can now (and do now!) make use of the bridge since it's available to the whole LAN. I'm running an instance of Monica...

        Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

        I actually have a couple of other services that can now (and do now!) make use of the bridge since it's available to the whole LAN. I'm running an instance of Monica (that I never actually use, though hopefully an actual notification system will change that) that I still haven't even migrated over to my Unraid server (it's running on my NUC), and I just finally set up my cron job running youtube-dl to email me at my ProtonMail inbox when it fails, thanks to the availability of the bridge!

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          That makes sense. Have you considered dockerizing ProtonMail bridge together with emailrelay? I am sure the community would appreciate it if you did. You can’t be the only one with this use case.

          That makes sense. Have you considered dockerizing ProtonMail bridge together with emailrelay? I am sure the community would appreciate it if you did. You can’t be the only one with this use case.

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            That's a great idea! I'm keeping an eye on the ProtonMail Bridge GitHub issue (which they responded to!); once that's resolved I might look into building a Dockerfile. I don't think there's...

            That's a great idea! I'm keeping an eye on the ProtonMail Bridge GitHub issue (which they responded to!); once that's resolved I might look into building a Dockerfile. I don't think there's currently a way to log in to the Bridge noninteractively, (this would get complicated if you had 2FA enabled, anyway) but I'll poke around see what's possible.

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              I did a bit of googling and found this: https://gitlab.com/T4cC0re/protonmail-bridge-docker It’s over a year old, so it definitely needs some work, but it might be a good place to start. It also...

              I did a bit of googling and found this: https://gitlab.com/T4cC0re/protonmail-bridge-docker

              It’s over a year old, so it definitely needs some work, but it might be a good place to start. It also doesn’t look like the author had a solution for 2fa either. It would be super awesome if ProtonMail could implement app specific passwords like google has.

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