A few months ago, I wrote an article about how to use a Dovecot plugin to give yourself push email on iOS devices: https://colincogle.name/blog/dovecot-with-apple-push/

Well, thanks to @[email protected] and countless GitHub users — i.e., https://github.com/freswa/dovecot-xaps-daemon/issues/43 — I regret to inform you all that the XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE concept might be dead.

This project relied on using macOS Server’s API’s to request a certificate for the Apple Push Notification Service, so that one could send yourself notifications. Well, macOS Server died a long time ago, configurations evolved into MDM profiles (which, honestly, are easier), and the certificate API was deprecated and then disabled last autumn to little fanfare.

Is there any hope for push IMAP on iOS in the future? Only time will tell. If you have a valid certificate, XAPSd will keep working until it expires, but after that, who knows? I might have to go back to fetching my email!

(Oh, and if it works for you, don’t upgrade to Dovecot 2.4. I wasted an evening migrating and unmigrating my config files.)

If anyone knows anyone at Apple, please let me know how to complain to something that’s not a feedback form.

#SelfHosted #Dovecot #PushEmail #Apple #iOS #iPadOS #macOS #macOSServer #IMAP #IMAPIdle #sysadmin #email #Apple #APNS #ApplePushNotificationService

This will never happen, but Apple should bring back macOS Server and allow self-hosted data storage as an alternative to iCloud.

#Apple #macOS #macOSServer #iCloud #SelfHosting #Wishlist #WishfulThinking

“Asked about a continuing relationship with Microsoft after the crash, [Delta CEO Ed] Bastian said he regards it as ‘probably the most fragile platform’ and asked the question, ‘When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?’” 😳

#Technology #CrowdstrikeOutage #MicrosoftWindows #Apple #macOS #macOSServer

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210680/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-delta-lawsuit-class-action-damages

Another relic from my early OS X Server sysadmin days: my ATX Rackmount G4.

Our company needed a low-power, low cost Mac server with dual network interfaces. The Mac Mini was brand new on the block and USB ethernet adapters were flaky at best. So I decided to put a Sawtooth G4 motherboard into a modified 4U rackmount case and install OS X Server onto it.

A little bit janky, but it worked great at its intended application for years!
#macOSserver #powermac #rackmount

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In other news I’m trying to set up public access on my server for users to upload files to and that is it. Is anyone aware of good server apps that will do that?

#macosserver #docker #server #software

Apple Discontinues macOS Server

Today, Apple has quietly discontinued macOS Server. I cannot say that I am surprised by this. macOS Server has long been in maintenance mode where it only gets the bare minimum of updates. Furthermore, I think the final death knell for macOS Server is the fact that Apple recently introduced Apple Business Essentials, which effectively repla

https://www.waynedixon.com/2022/04/21/apple-discontinues-macos-server/

#Apple #macOS #discontinued #macOSServer

Apple Discontinues macOS Server

Today, Apple has quietly discontinued macOS Server. I cannot say that I am surprised by this. macOS Server has long been in maintenance mode where it only gets the bare minimum of updates. Furthermore, I think the final death knell for macOS Server is the fact that Apple recently introduced Apple Business Essentials, which effectively repla

https://www.waynedixon.com/2022/04/21/apple-discontinues-macos-server/

#Apple #macOS #discontinued #macOSServer