The end of Dovecot Director?

[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 <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
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>  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 feelings of broken trust.
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>  That would be a shame.
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>  No one decries the commercial side of Dovecot wanting to make money. Timo and others have worked very hard on this project for many years.  I was a very early adopter of Dovecot, a refugee from (the awful) Cyrus IMAP server, and I watched it grow up to be a highly useful and widely respected package.  Creating a commercial version to reward the developers and fund future development is fine; I applaud it.
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>  But it really smells like the current move with Director is crossing a line.
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>  Those in charge of making this decision would do well to pay very close attention here.
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>            -Dave
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>On 11/2/22 12:46, Jan Hugo Prins wrote:
>> 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.
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>> Jan Hugo
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>> On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad Schuetz <brad at omnis.com> wrote:
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>>     On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote:
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>>             On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall <fw at moov.de> wrote:
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>>             On 2022-11-02 09:11, Aki Tuomi wrote:
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>>                 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.
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>>             It's not the same thing.
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>>                 It is not critical functionality. You can feasibly run a
>>                 two-node
>>                 dovecot system on NFS without having director.
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>>             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.
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>> 
>>             Ciao
>>             - Frank
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>>         Can you tell me what kind of functionality you are unable to
>>         achieve with the passdb solution?
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>>         Aki
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>> 
>>     Can you tell us what you are gaining (other than monitarily) by removing a completely functionally working feature that numerous people are using?
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>>     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.
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>>     --     Brad
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>> 
>> -- 
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>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>New Kensington, PA
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