Hello @Mutters-Softly
Thank you for the feedback. Tapo Camera supports SD card recording as well as pushing Notifications to the phone, with those you could save the video clips in SD card and playback on the APP and get notifications when something happened with proper setup.
With Tapo care subscription, user will have some more great features like cloud videos and Rich Notification with snapshot to the phone.
Email notification has been one of the popular feature requests which you could find in Most Popular Feature Requests for Tapo, feel free to leave your comment and user senerior on the corresponding thread, that will help us organize your feedback and share with our team for evaluation.