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.
and absolutely can confirm it’s very complex to setup properly.
To expand on this, dealing with anti-spam stuff is a pain. It’s easy to think that things are working fine, but then have email getting blackholed because of some anti-spam system on some specific remote system. Like, this isn’t a “the config files are complicated, but once it’s running, it’s fine” situation.
Go back to 2000 and running an email server was no big deal.
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So you are actually asking for a self-hosted email server, that has an Android client and supports push. 😆
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.
To expand on this, dealing with anti-spam stuff is a pain. It’s easy to think that things are working fine, but then have email getting blackholed because of some anti-spam system on some specific remote system. Like, this isn’t a “the config files are complicated, but once it’s running, it’s fine” situation.
Go back to 2000 and running an email server was no big deal.