Mac OS 14 (Sonoma) Support for Openhaystack

[Loic760]

Issue:
With the upcoming release (of the currently in beta) macOS 14.0 Sonoma, Apple has announced the removal of mail plugins compatibility. This change will render the OpenHaystack application non-functional.

Request:
Find a Workaround to fetch location data of Openhaystack tags that isn't relying on the Apple mail plugin if possible ? (might be with the help of apple iCloud for windows ?) or (minimal hackintosh 13.0 vm without graphical interface as a way to run OHserverapp only as a more efficient way)

[Sn0wfreezeDev]

I would love to know how AltStore is doing it in macOS Sonoma. If we find out we probably can port it to OpenHaystack. So far we don't have it ready.

[rkreutz]

@Sn0wfreezeDev would this be an option? #127

[EphraimElgrabli]

@Sn0wfreezeDev maybe You can connect with https://twitter.com/Sideloadly, they found a way to bypass the need to use the mail plugin. and they actually respond to DMs very nicely.
(btw maybe you can ask them also how they managed to inject apps into the macs while SIP enabled, maybe using their technique to extract and inject keys to the keychain it will be possible in theory to make the tags visible in the genuine find my app?)

[JWegener]

As of now, openhaystack is non-functional for those of us who have updated to Sonoma, is that true?

[Chapoly1305]

As of now, openhaystack is non-functional for those of us who have updated to Sonoma, is that true?

True. Mail in Sonoma will not show this plug-in. This is confirmed by multiple media that Apple removed support of Mail Plug-in and mandatory to use extension instead.

[liebrandapps]

OpenHayStack seems to be no longer working unless somebody re-implements functionality like the anisette-server https://github.com/Dadoum/anisette-v3-server. At this point - to my knowledge - there are two alternative options:

https://github.com/biemster/FindMy
https://github.com/liebrandapps/FindMyGUI

The FindMyGUI (written by me) is based on the work of FindMy by Biemster. I moved this into an app that can be used from a browser. This is still beta. It works for me - however, I did not put any effort into nice appearance. Going to add that.

You will need a Linux system like a Raspberry PI...

[fansel]

Maybe this project is another option: macless-haystack. It's a combination of a couple of popular OpenHaystack implementations. And theres no need for a Linux System. It basically uses the mentioned repos @liebrandapps talked about