The end of Dovecot Director?

[Aki Tuomi]

Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator get a pri/bu pair.

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.

The mail server functionality is going to remain 100% open source and free.

Aki

> On 20/10/2022 21:37 EEST Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> I'm top posting because I can't make heads or tails of this thread.
> Does this thread mean that Dovecot will no longer be Free Software? 
> 
> It appears that only Dovecot Director will be taken proprietary, but if
> all of Dovecot is in jeopardy, I need to switch to another local IMAP
> server program. Any suggestions will be welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
> 
> 
> Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:02:38 +0300 (EEST)
> 
> >> On 20/10/2022 12:24 EEST Steff Majeur <afamiliartaste at proton.me>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>  
> >> I recently stumbled upon the following commit on the Dovecot core
> >> Github repository:
> >> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4a187116dc2311804be22724007d357323005358
> >> 
> >> Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next
> >> major version of Dovecot and the commercial Dovecot cluster
> >> architecture will be its successor:
> >> https://github.com/dovecot/documentation/blob/a85b742ec4fc2744db30a6943b3c25f004e46720/source/admin_manual/cluster/index.rst 
> >
> >Yes, this is going to happen.
> >
> >> This would be a huge blow for many organizations around the world
> >> that are currently using Dovecot with Director in a shared storage
> >> environment.
> >> 
> >> Can anyone of the Dovecot developers maybe enlighten us about the
> >> future of Dovecot?
> >> - Will there still be the Director feature in the next community
> >> release of Dovecot?  
> >
> >Next 2.3 CE release will have a director.
> >
> >> - If not, will there be a community feature that is on par with the
> >> current Director feature?  
> >
> >There will be more information about this closer to new major release,
> >that we are working on. Director is still present in
> >https://github.com/dovecot/core/tree/release-2.3
> >
> >> - For how long will Dovecot version 2.3 still be supported (security
> >> fixes, bug fixes)? Is there any EOL plan? 
> >
> >This will be informed later, but as general rule, once we make a new
> >major release, 2.3 will go into maintenance mode, and will receive
> >only select bug fixes and CVE fixes.
> >
> >> Thanks for any clarification!
> >> Steff  
> >
> >Aki
> 
> 
> SteveT
> 
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