The end of Dovecot Director?

Heiko Schlittermann hs at schlittermann.de
Fri Oct 21 09:38:36 UTC 2022


Steff Majeur <afamiliartaste at proton.me> (Do 20 Okt 2022 11:24:49 CEST):
> 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
> 
> This would be a huge blow for many organizations around the world that are currently using Dovecot with Director in a shared storage environment.

We - the communitiy - are free to continue development of the director.
Especially large organizations should re-think their ideas of getting
free software for free.

    Best regards from Dresden/Germany
    Viele Grüße aus Dresden
    Heiko Schlittermann
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