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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