Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Jean-Daniel
If the community has enough resources to fork the whole project, it would probably be far more efficient and easier to just fork the Director component. I’m not familiar enough with dovecot sources to tell if this is possible, but if the community really wants to keep Director alive, maybe it s

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Jan Hugo Prins
One of our developers wrote the whole LDAP integration in Dovecot, and I for one am not happy with this move. Jan Hugo On November 2, 2022 6:16:21 PM GMT+01:00, Dave McGuire wrote: > > It would certainly be a shame if that sort of thing started happening with > Dovecot. Since day one, the D

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Dave McGuire
It would certainly be a shame if that sort of thing started happening with Dovecot. Since day one, the Dovecot community has always been very pleasant, friendly, and drama-free. If forks start happening due to profiteering, that will irrevocably change the Dovecot community, with feeling

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Jan Hugo Prins
I think the only thing they will gain is a community that is angry and will in the end leave the product / fork the complete product. Jan Hugo On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad Schuetz wrote: >On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote: >>> On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall wrote: >>> >>

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Brad Schuetz
On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote: On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall wrote: On 2022-11-02 09:11, Aki Tuomi wrote: You can also see the email sent by others which shows how you can do this without replication, using proxy and passdb to direct users to right backend. Which is basically what

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall wrote: > > > On 2022-11-02 09:11, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > You can also see the email sent by others which shows how you can do > > this without replication, using proxy and passdb to direct users to > > right backend. Which is basically what director does. >

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Frank Wall
On 2022-11-02 09:11, Aki Tuomi wrote: You can also see the email sent by others which shows how you can do this without replication, using proxy and passdb to direct users to right backend. Which is basically what director does. It's not the same thing. It is not critical functionality. You c

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 01/11/2022 17:58 EET Mark Moseley wrote: > > > TL;DR:  > > Sure, this affects medium/large/Enterprise folks (that's where I was using > Director -- though currently retired, so no existing self-interest in this > email). > > This will also affect *any* installation with a

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Tom Sommer
On 2022-11-01 16:58, Mark Moseley wrote: This *feels" to me like a parent company looking to remove features from the open source version in order to add feature differentiation to the paid version. I've loved the Dovecot project for over a decade and a half. And incidentally I have a very w