The end of Dovecot Director?

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 20/10/2022 22:00 EEST Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> 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
> 

https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/installation_guide/upgrading/from-2.3-to-3.0/

This is subject to change, as we have not actually released this version yet. 

Aki