Independant Push Notification (GSF Independet)
After switching to Lineageos without a Google Playstore, I am unable to receive push notifications from protonmail, because it relies on the google service framework.
If you could keep an independent push notification functionality, like telegram foss or wechat, it's much appreciated.
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superuser commented
I second this!!. just switched to Graphene OS, your VPN is GSF independent. It would be great if the Email client was as well.
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Anonymous commented
I am running on a Huawei P40 Pro and I'm not receiving push notifications for my emails, including my paid ProtonMail account is very unfortunate. I have no issues receiving notifications from other messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, Snapchat etc.
As stated above, there is a growing number of devices that do not use Google Play Services.
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QC commented
I just discovered that Tutanota has notifications working without Google services needed, and PM needs to do the same. I really don't want to switch email for such a simple feature as having working notifications. For now, I have to leave my home computer on all the time to receive emails in a desktop client that then forwards all my emails to Tutanota so that I get notifications on my phone! But PM is my main email, only using Tuta for this purpose. Could happily turn off my computer and delete Tuta if this was fixed.
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QC commented
I just switched to GrapheneOS on Android, a super secure Google-free OS. I love it but am surprised that there are no options to get notified of my emails in Protonmail. Push notifications don't work without Google? Supposed to be privacy focussed but to get your emails, you have to have Google(the least privacy respecting entity on Earth)? Doesn't make sense. Telegram and Signal and other apps have working notifications on this OS, so PM should be able to also. One option in PM is to connect a backup email to send notifications to, but once a day is the only option. I want a notification to the backup email after each email. I read that admins of PM had answered some requests back in 2014 and 2015 that they would add that feature soon. It's now 2020! Please help your truly privacy minded customers with better options!