{"id":19988,"date":"2018-01-01T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19988"},"modified":"2018-01-02T07:52:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:52:38","slug":"entering-a-fastmail-account-using-a-qr-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/entering-a-fastmail-account-using-a-qr-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering a FastMail Account Using a QR Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fastmail.com\/2017\/12\/19\/faster-easier-setup-on-iphones-ipads-and-macs\/\">Neil Jenkins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.fastmail.com\/2017\/12\/19\/faster-easier-setup-on-iphones-ipads-and-macs\/\">\n<p>Unfortunately, setting up your account can be tricky and error-prone. Proper support for autodiscovery of server settings is sadly missing still in most apps including Apple&rsquo;s (despite the fact they literally <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc6186\">wrote the spec<\/a>&#8230;) and you have to set up mail, contacts and calendar syncing separately.<\/p>\n<p>However, now there is a better way thanks to a feature Apple provides called <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171216180447\/https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/content\/featuredarticles\/iPhoneConfigurationProfileRef\/Introduction\/Introduction.html\">configuration profiles<\/a>. A profile is a file which bundles all the settings needed for your account, and can easily be installed or removed from your phone or Mac.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Jenkins: Unfortunately, setting up your account can be tricky and error-prone. Proper support for autodiscovery of server settings is sadly missing still in most apps including Apple&rsquo;s (despite the fact they literally wrote the spec&#8230;) and you have to set up mail, contacts and calendar syncing separately. However, now there is a better way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[126,193,176,150,596,31,1472,26,597],"class_list":["post-19988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applemail","tag-calendar","tag-contacts","tag-email","tag-fastmail","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iosapp","tag-mobilemail"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20002,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988\/revisions\/20002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}