Resend forwards inbound mail to your instance over a signed webhook. Your server verifies it, throws away duplicate deliveries, and stores the message.
Threads group by message ID, so replies land under the conversation they belong to. New mail appears over Server-Sent Events — no polling, no refresh. The conversation is highlighted where it lands, so you can see which one is new without reading the timestamps.
With the tab closed, a web push notification reaches the device instead: the sender, the subject and the opening line, arriving the moment the webhook commits and filled in with a preview once the body is fetched. With the tab open, a short sound — one cue for mail arriving, another for a send that failed — which you can turn off per browser.