> On Sep 24, 2024, at 23:49, Ralph Seichter via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>
> wrote:
> Config profiles ("mobileconfig") are certainly more useful for
> organisations supporting numerous users, who either don't want to
> indulge in manual configuration, or who are not even permitted to
> change MUA-related setting.
Sure, you can do mobileconfigs (if you can figure out which config editor to
use this week — Apple has changed the authoring tool several times).
But, hay, why stop there? You can also go full MDM on your user's devices.
We all make assumptions about the situation people are in. Perhaps I, with a
sum total of 4 “users”, have different requirements than, say, you, with 1000’s
of users and wanting to provide a turnkey solution for people to configure
their email for your service. Or maybe you work at a Really Large Corporation
that control’s many multiple thousands of user’s devices, and do actually want
to use MDM software (which, yeah, would push multiple MobileConfigs for email,
certs, etc).
The original statement was:
> The other option is Apple Mail, but it is not picking up
> that fact to use IMAP on 993 and STMP on 465 or 587.
Granted, the “picking up” part there hints are the initial configuration, which
could be done with SRV records or MobileConfigs, or the old fashioned way, with
instructions on how to configure you system.
My comments assumed that someone wanted a simple way to manually configure
Apple Mail to use specific ports. Your comments assume that someone wanted to
provide one-touch provisioning for customers.
Fair enough.
Sean
PS The last time I added an account to an iOS device, it used port 993 for imap
and both 465 and 587 (it tried those, as well as 25, for sending email).
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