dovecot - Jan 2020 - Is it possible to enable push notifications for iOS/macOS mail clients on a stock dovecot?

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

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

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

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


Thanks,
Steffan Cline
steffan at hldns.com
602-793-0014
> On Jan 8, 2020, at 2:39 PM, infoomatic <infoomatic at 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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