<html><head></head><body>I think the only thing they will gain is a community that is angry and will in the end leave the product / fork the complete product.<br><br>Jan Hugo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad Schuetz <brad@omnis.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall <fw@moov.de> wrote:<br><br> On 2022-11-02 09:11, Aki Tuomi wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">You can also see the email sent by others which shows how you can do<br>this without replication, using proxy and passdb to direct users to<br>right backend. Which is basically what director does.<br></blockquote>It's not the same thing.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">It is not critical functionality. You can feasibly run a two-node<br>dovecot system on NFS without having director.<br></blockquote>It seems to be critical enough to offer a replacement for paying<br>customers, while at the same time leaving the community edition<br>with no valid replacement.<br><br><br>Ciao<br>- Frank<br></blockquote>Can you tell me what kind of functionality you are unable to achieve with the passdb solution?<br><br>Aki<br></blockquote><br>Can you tell us what you are gaining (other than monitarily) by removing a completely functionally working feature that numerous people are using?<br><br>Adding new paid features is one thing (i.e. nginx), taking away a feature to replace it with a paid feature is something completely different.<br><br><div class="k9mail-signature">-- <br>Brad<br><br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>