The end of Dovecot Director?

[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 <brad at omnis.com> wrote:
>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
>
>

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