On 2020-09-06 16:53, Eyüp Hakan Duran wrote:
> Dear Madam/Sir,
>
> I just developed an interest in OpenBSD and started using it on my
> ThinkPad. Thank you so much for developing this OS; I find it very clean
> and relatively easy to use for people who have some basic understanding of
> how it should work. I am far from claiming any expertise though and humbly
> learning a lot.
>
> I do not possess any significant programming background or skills , and
> this is the main reason for this email/request. I would like to
> respectfully request porting protonmail bridge to OpenBSD. It is open
> source, which is in deb format at the link posted below. I truly wish I had
> the skill set to do this myself but unfortunately I don't. I think
> encrypted email provided by protonmail is very much in line with the
> security and privacy objectives of OpenBSD and this port/package would be a
> great contribution to the project. I am very much aware of the relative
> shortage of worker power and time to dedicate to these kinds of tasks in
> OpenBSD project, but I thought I could take a chance and ask.
>
> Thank you so much for considering. Kind regards,
>
> Hakan Duran
>
> https://protonmail.com/bridge/install
As for as I can tell, people are still waiting for this software to be
ported to any BSD, so I am guessing it would be a lot of work. If you
need it, you are probably stuck using a different OS to run it, for now.
Keep in mind you can run Linux in a VM on OpenBSD
(https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html).
--
James
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