CalDAV/CardDAV servers are available for the calendars/contacts, although really you’d like to have that be part of ActiveSync push as well. Alternatively, you could go the Apple push route and modify your dovecot to support XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE which uses APNS to notify you; then you’re exactly like OS X Server and in fact you need a copy to get the cert necessary to push requests over to Apple. Some bloke has helpfully reverse-engineered it using the sources Apple provided. If you can get a copy of OS X Server installed and get your push cert, you can load it up and, as long as you don’t mind depending on your carrier as well as APNS, you can have push notifications for mail, and wave goodbye to all the EAS dependencies. I’m about to go there myself and I’m torn between self-sufficiency and minimal dependency; I’ve a feeling that I’ll ultimately conclude that since my carrier is IPv4-only I may as well depend on APNS as well. I get IPv6 using IPSec back home; it’s the only way. You might look at it; Apple have improved their IKE support considerably including IPv6 routed support.
It’s annoying as hell that you can’t just use standard stuff. Sure IMAP is not ideal for mobile but if Apple will make exceptions for themselves then why not standards-compliant mail servers? It’s a shame, but I guess the user experience falls off a cliff when you start asking people to specify timeout values in your user interfaces. Bloody NAT. If only we had IPv6 everywhere, today. The network was not built for kludge on top of kludge like this. Until then, it’s EAS or APNS. Pick your poison. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
