Freebsd, postfix and push email

Ross Cameron abalour at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 13:36:59 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Ron (Lists) <rg.lists at rzweb.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push notifications to
> an iPhone (I assume other smart phones work the same way).  I've searched
> the web and I can't find any information about how to make this work.  I
> know it can be done with Exchange and ActiveSync, but I don't want to run
> any kind of exchange server.
>
> Thanks for any help, or even a point in the right direction.

FreeBSD is an OS
Postfix is an SMTP server.

What  you want is a email push daemon.
What I would use (and indeed do use) is Funambol, its and open source
push media server.
    And there are software clients for most smart phone OSs.






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