On 9/5/2014 9:22 AM, Stefan Arentz stefan@arentz.ca wrote:
When you enable Push Email on OS X Server, that certificate will be generated for you and stored in your Keychain.
There is no other way to generate this certificate. This is why you need a legal copy of OS X Server.
You don’t actually have to run OS X Server. I migrated away from OS X Server to regular Dovecot on Ubuntu. So I simply took the generated certificate with me. How to export and convert it is described in the README of the daemon project.
This is possible because the certificate is not bound to specific hardware or a specific email domain. It is however connected to your Apple ID.
I understand that this is not ideal but unfortunately there is no way around this. OS X Server however is just $19.99.
When my code is a bit more final, I will try to contact Apple and find out if they are willing to open up the certificate generation. That would sure benefit a larger audience.
Ok, thanks for the explanation...
Gotta love (hate) closed source software...