[Dovecot] Commercial features in Dovecot future: Object storage, archive

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13.11.2012, at 11.17, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot.
>> 
>> * Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality.
>> 
>> * Email archive storage.
>> 
>> See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details.
> 
> 404 file not found, but it was not too difficult to guess where you meant.

It worked when I wrote the email, but broke since then :)

> I'm not too interested in the extended functionality, but the extra
> tested, bugfix-only/mainly Enterprise Release sounds very interesting.
> That page isn't quite clear on if the enterprise release is meant to
> be free or not "(Some features may require license fees)". Could you
> please clarify? Is it available already?

It's currently available if you buy a support contract. (RPMs and source tarball, DEBs should come in somewhat near future.)