Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator get a pri/bu pair.
Only the director part is being removed, rest of Dovecot remains. For the next major release we are also removing certain deprecated parts that have a replacement in elsewhere of the code. The mail server functionality is going to remain 100% open source and free. Aki > On 20/10/2022 21:37 EEST Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > I'm top posting because I can't make heads or tails of this thread. > Does this thread mean that Dovecot will no longer be Free Software? > > It appears that only Dovecot Director will be taken proprietary, but if > all of Dovecot is in jeopardy, I need to switch to another local IMAP > server program. Any suggestions will be welcome. > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > > Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:02:38 +0300 (EEST) > > >> On 20/10/2022 12:24 EEST Steff Majeur <afamiliarta...@proton.me> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >> I recently stumbled upon the following commit on the Dovecot core > >> Github repository: > >> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4a187116dc2311804be22724007d357323005358 > >> > >> Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next > >> major version of Dovecot and the commercial Dovecot cluster > >> architecture will be its successor: > >> https://github.com/dovecot/documentation/blob/a85b742ec4fc2744db30a6943b3c25f004e46720/source/admin_manual/cluster/index.rst > >> > > > >Yes, this is going to happen. > > > >> This would be a huge blow for many organizations around the world > >> that are currently using Dovecot with Director in a shared storage > >> environment. > >> > >> Can anyone of the Dovecot developers maybe enlighten us about the > >> future of Dovecot? > >> - Will there still be the Director feature in the next community > >> release of Dovecot? > > > >Next 2.3 CE release will have a director. > > > >> - If not, will there be a community feature that is on par with the > >> current Director feature? > > > >There will be more information about this closer to new major release, > >that we are working on. Director is still present in > >https://github.com/dovecot/core/tree/release-2.3 > > > >> - For how long will Dovecot version 2.3 still be supported (security > >> fixes, bug fixes)? Is there any EOL plan? > > > >This will be informed later, but as general rule, once we make a new > >major release, 2.3 will go into maintenance mode, and will receive > >only select bug fixes and CVE fixes. > > > >> Thanks for any clarification! > >> Steff > > > >Aki > > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm