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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">Again this is my understanding so please feel free to correct me where I’m off-base…</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 20 Oct 2022, at 12:00, Steve Litt wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:41:53 +0300 (EEST)</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use replicator
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get a pri/bu pair.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I've never needed to use replicator. I don't even know what a pri/bu
<br>
pair is. I just have fetchmail feed to procmail which delivers messages
<br>
into my Dovecot maildir, and then access the Dovecot IMAP server with
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an email client. Hopefully I'll be able to continue doing it this way.</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">Only the director part is being removed, rest of Dovecot remains. For
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the next major release we are also removing certain deprecated parts
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that have a replacement in elsewhere of the code.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Is there a document on the deprecations and their replacements? I'd
<br>
like to read it.</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">The mail server functionality is going to remain 100% open source and
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free.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">The preceding sentence is a huge relief for me. Thanks!</p>
<p dir="auto">SteveT</p>
<p dir="auto">Steve Litt
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Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times</p>
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