One of our developers wrote the whole LDAP integration in Dovecot, and I for one am not happy with this move.
Jan Hugo On November 2, 2022 6:16:21 PM GMT+01:00, Dave McGuire <mcgu...@neurotica.com> wrote: > > 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. > > That would be a shame. > > 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. > > But it really smells like the current move with Director is crossing a line. > > Those in charge of making this decision would do well to pay very close > attention here. > > -Dave > >On 11/2/22 12:46, Jan Hugo Prins wrote: >> 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. >> >> Jan Hugo >> >> On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad Schuetz <b...@omnis.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 11/2/22 03:54, Aki Tuomi wrote: >> >> On 02/11/2022 11:55 EET Frank Wall <f...@moov.de> wrote: >> >> On 2022-11-02 09:11, Aki Tuomi wrote: >> >> You can also see the email sent by others which shows >> how you can do >> this without replication, using proxy and passdb to >> direct users to >> right backend. Which is basically what director does. >> >> It's not the same thing. >> >> It is not critical functionality. You can feasibly run a >> two-node >> dovecot system on NFS without having director. >> >> It seems to be critical enough to offer a replacement for paying >> customers, while at the same time leaving the community edition >> with no valid replacement. >> >> >> Ciao >> - Frank >> >> Can you tell me what kind of functionality you are unable to >> achieve with the passdb solution? >> >> Aki >> >> >> Can you tell us what you are gaining (other than monitarily) by removing >> a completely functionally working feature that numerous people are using? >> >> 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. >> >> -- Brad >> >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > >-- >Dave McGuire, AK4HZ >New Kensington, PA > > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
