The end of Dovecot Director?

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2022-10-24, Alessio Cecchi <alessio at skye.it> wrote:
>
> Director is not only used by large companies but also in small 
> installations consisting of 2 servers and cannot be immediately replaced 
> with Nginx as it has to manage the user/backend association for POP, 
> IMAP, LMTP, Managesieve.

For the small multi-server installations I've done I have used ldap (though
another db would work) where a primary server is defined for each user.
The MTA does a lookup and uses the relevant host as destination for LMTP
delivery. For client connections, users can connect to any server; Dovecot
config uses proxy_maybe so if they hit the primary server for their mailbox
then it's served directly, and otherwise it's proxied. (And in my case
I care more about availability than splitting disk storage, so I replicate
in Dovecot). This doesn't use Director.

Isn't Director only really useful in the case where you have 2 or more servers
*and shared mailbox storage*, and you don't have a way to define a "primary"
server for the mailbox? I don't really see how it's useful for simpler configs.