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Proton Mail Bridge

Proton Mail Bridge runs a local IMAP/SMTP service that lets traditional mail clients access a Proton mailbox. This LXC runs Bridge headless and forwards IMAP/SMTP to the LAN using systemd socket activation (systemd-socket-proxyd).

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Proton Mail Bridge
In Development
This script is currently in active development and may be unstable or incomplete. Use in production environments is not recommended.

Installation

Default install:

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bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/raw/main/ct/protonmail-bridge.sh)"
CPU: 2 cores RAM: 1024 MB Disk: 8 GB OS: Debian 13

Notes

After install, run protonmailbridge-configure inside the container for first-time setup.
LAN forwarding (container IP): IMAP 143 -> 127.0.0.1:1143, SMTP 587 -> 127.0.0.1:1025.
You can later use protonmailbridge-configure to temporarily stop the service and enter the Bridge CLI.
MQTT & Messaging
protonmail-bridge lxc mqtt-messaging auto-update dev
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