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. 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. Again this is my understanding so please feel free to correct me where I?m off-base? - - - On 20 Oct 2022, at 12:00, Steve Litt wrote:> Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:41:53 +0300 (EEST) > >> Most small/medium servers do not need director. You can use >> replicator >> get a pri/bu pair. > > I've never needed to use replicator. I don't even know what a pri/bu > pair is. I just have fetchmail feed to procmail which delivers > messages > into my Dovecot maildir, and then access the Dovecot IMAP server with > an email client. Hopefully I'll be able to continue doing it this way. > >> >> Only the director part is being removed, rest of Dovecot remains. For >> the next major release we are also removing certain deprecated parts >> that have a replacement in elsewhere of the code. > > Is there a document on the deprecations and their replacements? I'd > like to read it. > >> >> The mail server functionality is going to remain 100% open source and >> free. > > The preceding sentence is a huge relief for me. Thanks! > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20221020/a1172153/attachment.htm>
> On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding <tech at leding.net> wrote: > > 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.Director is used when you setup frontend servers in a load-balance cluster, proxy imap/pop3/lmtp/managesieve requests to backend Dovecot servers. I setup load-balance cluster for clients with HAProxy + KeepAlived + Dovecot Director running in frontend servers, so sad we have to find an alternative to replace Director in such case. It's not about "small/medium" servers, but the demand of imap/pop3/lmtp proxy service, especially in load-balance cluster. ---- Zhang Huangbin, founder of: - iRedMail: Open source email server solution: https://www.iredmail.org/ - Spider: Lightweight, on-premises Email Archiving Software: https://spiderd.io