On 11/8/2013 7:07 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I've never really wanted to create my own MTA, because I like Postfix
And given Postfix, Exim, etc, are mature and feature complete, why would you want to at this time? > My main design goals for the MTA are: ... > * Dovecot MTA is a new product "Product". Open source developers usually don't refer to new projects as "products". > * Configuration: ...Instead nearly all of the > configuration could be done using Sieve scripts. ... > * Try to implement as many existing interfaces as possible (e.g. > Milter and various Postfix APIs like policy servers) so that it > wouldn’t be necessary to reimplement all the tools and filters. It seems pretty clear your long term goal with this is to sew up Dovecot into a single source integrated stack that doesn't require an external MTA, and to sell the stack as a product. If this is your motivation behind this MTA, please state so. If this future integrated Dovecot stack product may negatively impact current open source Dovecot users, please state so. -- Stan
