Am Donnerstag 17 Mai 2018 schrieb dep:
> hi, everybody . . .
>
> after a little research, and spurred by that pile of stuff that wanted to
> be autoremoved, i went ahead last night and changed my sources.list to
> reflect Ubuntu-16.04-LTS and Preliminary Stable and did apt-get update and
> apt-get dist-upgrade. (ubuntu has traditionally supported LTS-to-LTS
> upgrades, which makes sense.) and so far, fingers crossed, everything is
> working.
>
> now comes the part that largely sparked all this upgrade frenzy (though the
> gemini project has figured in, too, this is now about my desktop machine):
> getting kmail to work with protonmail. i seem to have all the pieces
> installed. but there are some configuration issues that i cannot sort -- i
> simply don't know that much about the mechanics of email.
>
> i have the beta of the protonmail bridge, which is alleged to allow use of
> a local mail client in linux rather than being tied to protonmail's
> admittedly very nice webmail. the only configuration example they give,
> though, is thunderbird. might someone who knows mail well look through here
> and give me a sense of the analogs in kmail? most of it i can sort out, but
> such as the "IMAP exception" confounds me, as does where i'm supposed to
> tell kmail about 127.0.0.1:1143 and 127.0.0.1:1025. i know the numbers
> after the colons are the port, but no idea about the 127.0.0.1.

127.0.0.1 = localhost

Could it be that on those ports the protonmail bridge is communicated with?!

Stefan