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Written by Mora@pawb.social on 2025-01-29 at 13:26

Is there a self-hosted email client with push notifications?

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Written by just_another_person@lemmy.world on 2025-01-29 at 13:52

The point of a mail server is that many clients can connect to it and get what they need. What I’m reading here is that you want to disregard the ability to already do that in favor of having all your mail funneled through a self-hosted ‘something’ that just sends push notifications to your mobile…but then you’d still have to have your mobile mail client go and download all this mail you said is a battery drain, so you’re sort of negating yourself.

Now…the real crux of the problem you’re describing is simply that your mobile mail client is not very efficient, so why wouldn’t you just solve for that instead? Create a better workflow for your mail so your client doesn’t need to IMAP crawl EVERYTHING, or reduce the frequency it syncs maybe.

If that’s still not enough, depending on your mail host (which you didn’t mention), there are ways to simply subscribe to push notifications from their service more than likely if that’s all you want.

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Written by Mora@pawb.social on 2025-01-29 at 14:57

but then you’d still have to have your mobile mail client go and download all this mail you said is a battery drain, so you’re sort of negating yourself.

That is precisely my point. I do not want a mobile or desktop client anymore. Just send a client which is running on a system which is always running anyway to send me a notification and I can then decide if I will check it out now or if it can wait.

Proprietary mobile clients often work similarly, they do the “heavy lifting” on the server side, send a notification, but only temporarily load the mails you explicitly view temporarily on the device. And thus, they use less battery and storage of the device. Another benefit for the unified client would be faster sync of mail status (e.g. read/unread) as it is only one client on the IMAP server instead of one on each device. And another benefit would be not having to migrate email clients when replacing devices.

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