The purpose of this blog post is to act as a visual guide/tutorial on how to setup an iOS device (iPad or iPhone) using the native apps against a custom Linux Mail, Calendar & Contact server.
Disclaimer: I wrote this blog post after 36hours with an apple device. I have never had any previous encagement with an apple product. Huge culture change & learning curve. Be aware, that the below notes may not apply to your setup.
Original creation date: Friday 12 Oct 2018
Last Update: Sunday 18 Nov 2018
Linux Mail Server
Notes are based on the below setup:
- CentOS 6.10
- Dovecot IMAP server with STARTTLS (TCP Port: 143) with Encrypted Password Authentication.
- Postfix SMTP with STARTTLS (TCP Port: 587) with Encrypted Password Authentication.
- Baïkal as Calendar & Contact server.To see the entire article, click uppon article's title/link.
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Cloud-init is the defacto multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance
This article is a mini-HowTo use cloud-init with centos7 in your own libvirt qemu/kvm lab, instead of using a public cloud provider.
How Cloud-init works
Josh Powers @ DebConf17
How really works?
Cloud-init has Boot Stages
- Generator
- Local
- Network
- Config
- Final
and supports modules to extend configuration and support.
Here is a brief list of modules (sorted by name):
- bootc...To see the entire article, click uppon article's title/link.
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