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xmpp and iphone (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by tomsh@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Does anyone here run a small family XMPP (Prosody) server with iPhone clients? How did you set up APNs and push notifications — did you self‑host a push proxy (fpush/momak/etc.) or use an external service? Any tips or config snippets appreciated.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I use snikket and it works ok with iPhone, but not great.

[–] tomsh@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In what way — is delivery delayed, or do notifications sometimes not arrive at all?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Some don't arrive at all. Only in group chat though I think

[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

I run a prosody server and have a couple of users who run Monal, and notifications work reliably for us!

I made sure to follow the considerations for server admins and it's been ok.

Regarding the push service: unless you deploy your own version of the app, it's not possible to self-host your own push service. The flow looks like this:

XMPP server -> Monal pushserver -> Apple pushserver -> Device

Apple only allows the developer of the app to send notifications to their push server. They enforce this by giving the app developer a key specific to their app.

The linkage between XMPP server and Monal pushserver gets set up by Monal: when it connects to the XMPP server, it instructs it to send messages while it is offline to the Monal pushserver.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

I ran prosody server and used Siskin IM as a client, it worked pretty well. But as others mentioned, since this is Apple, the client developer has to run a push server, no background processes and long-polling allowed. Some other XMPP clients (Secret Messenger I think) did not have that set up and do not have notifications.