https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-daemon

Works PERFECTLY. I use it on CentOS 6 and 7. 


Thanks,
Steffan Cline
stef...@hldns.com
602-793-0014

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 2:39 PM, infoomatic <infooma...@gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> I have no idea about that Mac proprietary stuff ... however,
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/push_notification/ might be
> a solution/workaround for you.
> 
> regards,
> 
> infoomatic
> 
> 
>> Am 08.01.20 um 22:33 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
>> Now that Apple has abandoned mail server capabilities in macOS Server.app we 
>> have to move to an open source solution. I have done this using Macports and 
>> it works well (no thanks to Apple as it never published the in 2018 promised 
>> migration info for mail services).
>> 
>> The MacPorts Apple Push Notification variant based on a patch written a few 
>> years ago for dovecot supports APNS but it requires you to export a 
>> certificate form your old High Sierra Server.app. With the patch and that 
>> certificate, dovecot tells an email client it supports XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE and 
>> that makes Apple mail clients think they are talking to macOS Server and 
>> they switch to push notifications for updates. Now, that certificate needs 
>> to be renewed yearly by Server.app and imported by hand etc. At some point 
>> this will stop working (apart from that you need to keep an old macOS Server 
>> around to renew)
>> 
>> Is there another way to get this working with an open source dovecot, 
>> outside of using Apple’s push notification service? Some other standard? 
>> Some other service? Probably not, right?
>> 
>> G
> 

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