Push Email to iPhones, Macs?

From what it looks like the iphone will require a software update.

I cant seem to get the push server to work either. Also the iphone does not support CardDAV (Address Book Server.) at this point.

I dont see how to setup mail.app or iCal either...

I'm not sure if the push service works the same with OS X Server, but on the iPhone (and I believe Mail), when you setup the account, it will check to see if the server is able to do Push, and if so, I will register itself with the sever. Everything else is handled in the background.

I only had a quick go at this, but for me it does not seem to work.

I would be interested to know what you see in the "configured services' section of the Server Admin menu. For ical i get the full and correct domain name, but for mail, i just see a server.local entry.

I think I have everything setup correctly for "Push" but so far I'm not seeing any notification of iCal invitations or new mail.

If someone gets this to work it would be great if they posted the steps.

I've got push working properly (for Mac Desktop clients) under 10.6

For the iPhone, I believe that we need an update from Apple on the iPhone (3.02 ?) that will bring push online.

Currently, the address book only supports LDAP.
The calendar doesn't have a 'PUSH' settings unlike on iCal on 10.6 client.
And, for email, same thing, ..... its needs to recognise PUSH capabilities from the Server.

Lets hope this is coming quickly to the iPhone, ... and we don't have to wait months and months for this rather glaringly obvious missing piece of the puzzle.

Other than that, ... so far I am quite happy with 10.6 - but I plan to do a lot more testing in regards to iCal, groups within iCal etc.

Cheers!

Hi,

I have tried the same and it doesn't working on the iPhone. Looking forward to a software update though.

I don't think it is clear what is going on with Push to iPhone. Settings on both 10.6 Server and iPhone 3.01 seem to enable Push but it is not working. Maybe both need a tweak from Apple or maybe one or the other needs a tweak or maybe we haven't got the settings quite right yet.

What port are you using for push notification?

Have you had any luck getting the service to connect to the push notification server? I get this:

Warning: push-notify: connect() to socket: "/var/dovecot/push_notify" failed: Permission denied

And how does one configure the iPhone?

Matt,

I don't know what port a standard Server implementation of mail push uses. I don't see a place to specify this. All I have to go on is what is in Server Admin and it doesn't complain but doesn't mean it is working either.

Where do you see the Warning message? Is that from an error log? If so which one?

The iPhone push configuration is in Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars just below the list of accounts: Fetch New Data - select the Push option.

Matt,

I found a similar error in my system log that indicates that the push server is not working yet:

Warning: missing socket at /var/dovecot/push_notify; mail notification services not started

And in the Mail Access log:

deliver(jpsnow): Aug 29 17:13:32 Warning: push-notify: connect() to socket: "/var/dovecot/push_notify" failed: Permission denied

Any suggestions from any quarter welcomed.

Jim

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Hi Jim,

I saw that message in the Push Server log.

Agreed, the documentation is completely absent any detail on how to set the thing up, what ports to open, etc.

- Matt

I got that message also in my logs...

I went to /var/dovecot and found that the pushnotifications folder did not exist.

I created it, and the log messages went away.

Yes -- I had a similar experience. I found the order in which you enable this stuff is critical.

For me, I had to first enable the push server, configure it, stop it, go back into mail, set the server to push, start the notification service, then start and stop the mail service.

Push showed my test Leopard client as a connected user; no matter what I did with the iPhone though I couldn't get it to push (or connect.)

I ended up disabling the whole thing though, when I started seeing references in the system log to push service error messages. I'll need to dig back through them to paste them here on the forum, but it appeared something still isn't quite right.

The complete lack of technical documentation on this is a bit annoying, to say the lease.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2625

According to that document, Mac OS X Server isn't listed as a supported mail server type for Push.

Macwiz1220, check the date on that article. Snow Leopard Server 10.6 does have [email push notification listed as a feature|http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/mail-services.html].