Thank you, i’m reading the documentation to see if i can figure out how to make it work mostly as a client that sends emails thru the VPS email server.

You may be correct and it looks like this might be the cleanest solution to my problem.

I could even try to mount my local storage using wireguard and NFS. But I imagine network issues or downtime while receiving mails could mean big trouble, but that’s only an issue if I selfhost the storage and not pay for third party storage.

In my mind i was so sure that something already existed that was both a webmail client and also supported local storage of email lol, for some reason still it just makes sense to me.