The end of Dovecot Director?

[Brad Schuetz]

On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall <fw at moov.de> 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.
>> It's not the same thing.
>>
>>> It is not critical functionality. You can feasibly run a two-node
>>> dovecot system on NFS without having director.
>> It seems to be critical enough to offer a replacement for paying
>> customers, while at the same time leaving the community edition
>> with no valid replacement.
>>
>>
>> Ciao
>> - Frank
> Can you tell me what kind of functionality you are unable to achieve with the passdb solution?
>
> Aki

Can you tell us what you are gaining (other than monitarily) by removing a completely functionally working feature that numerous people are using?

Adding new paid features is one thing (i.e. nginx), taking away a feature to replace it with a paid feature is something completely different.

-- 
Brad