Announce: Plugin for iOS Push Email support

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Sep 5 13:23:54 UTC 2014


On 9/5/2014 9:22 AM, Stefan Arentz <stefan at 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...



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