I use mu4e so I don't know if the workflow converts but I watch for new email outside of Emacs entirely and upon new email run offlineimap and after sync have i

I use mu4e so I don't know if the workflow converts but I watch for new email outside of Emacs entirely and upon new email run offlineimap and after sync have it run mu4e-update-index via emacsclient. This means Emacs always has an up to date view of my email within a ~30 second window of the email being received and all I'm asking it to do is query mu which takes ms.