But what's the alternative? Give up and go back to Outlook? Ditch the brdge? Hard to tell which is better. Re-enabling it on the new machine gets it going again, but its a nuisance and really has dented confidence in this as a reliable solution for anyone looking for simple privacy. And drafts held on two machines without sync. No error messages, just not there in the task bar. On both machines, these errors, so its not environmental. Meanwhile the drafts folder disappeared and messages have to be saved locally. Got it all running on new machine but still getting 127.0.0.1 refusals and the bridge keeps crashing. its the 27th today and nothing downloaded since 19th. Deleted and re-added my account to thunderbird Reinstalled the bridge mid-Jan and got a temporary respite, finally downloading previous fortnight's messages, until it failed again. increased failure to connect, download messages. There was a new version of the bridge and things got way worse. I started the process of migrating to a new laptop Surface Pro. Started seeing a lot of failures to connect to the bridge. Late last year 2018 it started playing up - but then it is an old laptop. Windows 10, thunderbird (donator) and protonmail bridge. I have been a subscriber for nearly a year.

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