On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 20:40, Michael Slusarz via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On 07/18/2023 9:00 AM MDT Gerald Galster <list+dovecot@gcore.biz> wrote:
While I understand it takes effort to maintain the replication plugin, this is especially problematic for small active/active high-availability deployments.
To clarify: replication absolutely does not provide "active/active". Replication was meant to copy data to a standby server, but you can't have concurrent mailbox access. This is why directors existed.
I guess there are lots of servers that use replication for just 50 or 100 mailboxes. Cloudstorage (like S3) would be overkill for these.
Do you provide dovecot pro subscriptions for such small deployments?
A 50-100 mailbox user server will run Dovecot CE just fine. Pro would be overkill.
All current Dovecot development assumes that storage is decoupled from the system. Shared (as in network available) storage is what you need if you want high availability, whether in Pro or CE.
That seems like an extraordinary callous and short-sighted decision, but nevertheless does give some technical weight to your earlier statement.
Regards
Simon