My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In such an environment, Director would be the fore-person\traffic-cop keeping things organized & squared-away.
In other scenarios, the “pri\bu” means primary and backup DC instances which should be fine for many folks who just have a single server.
Again this is my understanding so please feel free to correct me where I’m off-base…
On 20 Oct 2022, at 12:00, Steve Litt wrote:
Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:41:53 +0300 (EEST)
Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator
get a pri/bu pair.I've never needed to use replicator. I don't even know what a pri/bu
pair is. I just have fetchmail feed to procmail which delivers messages
into my Dovecot maildir, and then access the Dovecot IMAP server with
an email client. Hopefully I'll be able to continue doing it this way.Only the director part is being removed, rest of Dovecot remains. For
the next major release we are also removing certain deprecated parts
that have a replacement in elsewhere of the code.Is there a document on the deprecations and their replacements? I'd
like to read it.The mail server functionality is going to remain 100% open source and
free.The preceding sentence is a huge relief for me. Thanks!
SteveT
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