<html><head></head><body>One of our developers wrote the whole LDAP integration in Dovecot, and I for one am not happy with this move.<br><br>Jan Hugo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 2, 2022 6:16:21 PM GMT+01:00, Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.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"><br> It would certainly be a shame if that sort of thing started happening with Dovecot. Since day one, the Dovecot community has always been very pleasant, friendly, and drama-free. If forks start happening due to profiteering, that will irrevocably change the Dovecot community, with feelings of broken trust.<br><br> That would be a shame.<br><br> No one decries the commercial side of Dovecot wanting to make money. Timo and others have worked very hard on this project for many years. I was a very early adopter of Dovecot, a refugee from (the awful) Cyrus IMAP server, and I watched it grow up to be a highly useful and widely respected package. Creating a commercial version to reward the developers and fund future development is fine; I applaud it.<br><br> But it really smells like the current move with Director is crossing a line.<br><br> Those in charge of making this decision would do well to pay very close attention here.<br><br> -Dave<br><br>On 11/2/22 12:46, Jan Hugo Prins wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">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>On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad Schuetz <brad@omnis.com> wrote:<br><br> On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote:<br><br> 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><br> You can also see the email sent by others which shows<br> how you can do<br> this without replication, using proxy and passdb to<br> direct users to<br> right backend. Which is basically what director does.<br><br> It's not the same thing.<br><br> It is not critical functionality. You can feasibly run a<br> two-node<br> dovecot system on NFS without having director.<br><br> 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><br> Can you tell me what kind of functionality you are unable to<br> achieve with the passdb solution?<br><br> Aki<br><br><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> -- Brad<br><br><br><div class="k9mail-signature">-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br></div></blockquote><br><div class="k9mail-signature">-- <br>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ<br>New Kensington, PA<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>