The end of Dovecot Director?

[Antonio Leding]

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…

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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
>
> Steve Litt
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