I currently use two mail clients: Betterbird (Thunderbird with additional bugfixes) on Linux [PikaOS] & FairEmail on Android. I have a lot of folders because of serverside sieve filtering which mostly creates structures like /<domain>/<localpart>. While it works, FairEmail is a battery drain when fetching all folders (I assume because there is no FetchAll in IMAP) and both are rather slow. Thunderbird especially also kind of sucks at picking up newly created folders.
So now my line of thought was to have a hosted email client, which would eliminate these two main issues. Instead of an app I would be willing to use a PWA. It would be nice if it had some offline caching though. A must is push notifications on my android device, ideally through some proxy or UnifiedPush, so I don’t have to expose the client to the WWW. I would run it on a local server & access it via VPN. PGP client support would be neat as well, though I currently do not use it.
Does anyone have any recommendations in this regard? 🙂
I think you have it backward. Notifications come from your email client after it polls the email server. So you need an email client on your android device that checks the server.
No need to self-host anything, unless you want to self-host your own email server, something that (while doable) is NOT to be taken lightly and will undounbtely lead to difficulties and lots of hiccups down the road.
I am currently self-hosting my email server (bee, doing for almost 20y) but not at home and absolutely can confirm it’s very complex to setup properly.
