9 Nov
2013
9 Nov
'13
4:57 a.m.
On 11/8/2013 7:07 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I've never really wanted to create my own MTA, because I like Postfix
And given Postfix, Exim, etc, are mature and feature complete, why would you want to at this time?
My main design goals for the MTA are: ...
- Dovecot MTA is a new product
"Product". Open source developers usually don't refer to new projects as "products".
- Configuration: ...Instead nearly all of the configuration could be done using Sieve scripts. ...
- Try to implement as many existing interfaces as possible (e.g. Milter and various Postfix APIs like policy servers) so that it wouldn’t be necessary to reimplement all the tools and filters.
It seems pretty clear your long term goal with this is to sew up Dovecot into a single source integrated stack that doesn't require an external MTA, and to sell the stack as a product.
If this is your motivation behind this MTA, please state so. If this future integrated Dovecot stack product may negatively impact current open source Dovecot users, please state so.
-- Stan