Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
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.

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:04:42 +0300 (EEST) >https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/installation_guide/upgrading/from-2.3-to-3.0/ > >This is subject to change, as we have not actually released this >version yet. > >Aki Thanks Aki, I skimmed this document and it looks to me like nothing

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:41:53 +0300 (EEST) >Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator >get a pri/bu pair. I've never needed to use replicator. I don't even know what a pri/bu pair is. I just have fetchmail feed to procmail which delivers messages into

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Antonio Leding
My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In such an environment, Director would be the fore-person\traffic-cop keeping things organized & squared-away. In other scenarios, the “pri\bu”

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Aki Tuomi
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

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 20/10/2022 22:00 EEST Steve Litt wrote: > > > Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:41:53 +0300 (EEST) > > >Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator > >get a pri/bu pair. > > I've never needed to use replicator. I don't even know what a pri/bu > pair is.

RE: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Marc
> Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator > get a pri/bu pair. > What is small?

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Zhang Huangbin
> On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding wrote: > > My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail > installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In > such an environment, Director would be the fore-person\traffic-cop keeping >

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
Please post your solution. Sent from my iPhone - please excuse brevity and typos > On Oct 20, 2022, at 10:21 PM, Zhang Huangbin wrote: > >  > >> On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding wrote: >> >> My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail >>

The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Steff Majeur
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

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 20/10/2022 12:24 EEST Steff Majeur 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