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Right, I wasnt as clear as I should have.
As of this second I have all 3 clients I mentioned fetching e-mails while they're open. However none of them fetch e-mails in the background, and geary/evolution seem to just... break sometimes and I have to redo the process to add business gmail/proton accounts to it.
My main issue is the fetching e-mails in the background though, it doesnt feel to me as if it should be something that difficult or niche.
That's weird. I run Geary myself for a couple off accounts and so far it does the job perfectly and without hiccups.
Anyway. You may try birdtray as written in one of the other comments but I'm pretty sure I tried it at least once and for some reasons wasn't convinced. YMMW
Do you get background notifications with Geary?
Yes. If it helps: I run it under Gnome. Maybe you need some extra service running?! I just checked and on my machine - in addition to Geary - there is the evolution-data-server running among others (evolution-source-registry, evolution-alarm-notify, evolution-calendar-factory, evolution-addressbook-factory).