[Dovecot] 1.0 roadmap - fs quota problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 13, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Chris H. wrote:

> Wow. We never should have switched from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. Having a
> 750,000 user base. We made the switch to Dovecot in an effort to  
> trim a
> little overhead on our systems. But our OS (FreeBSD 5.4 - UFS) version
> is rapidly reaching EOL. All future versions will default to UFS2.
> Dovecot seems to handle UFS correctly. But if we had known that we
> were required to write our own code to stay onboard with Dovecot, we
> would have *never* made the switch. It appears that Dovecot is not
> an appropriate choice for Production systems. But rather; better  
> suited
> for hobbyists. I sure wish we had known this from the start.

Well, I'm sorry that you feel that way, but before switching I would  
have supposed that you had checked that Dovecot does everything you  
need it to do. Especially because UW-IMAP doesn't even *try* to  
support the QUOTA extension that you obviously need so much, and that  
Dovecot at least even tries to support it even if not in every single  
operating system (or file system).

Doveocot isn't owned by any single company. I don't think the web  
page even tries to claim anything like it anywhere. Are you saying  
that I should devote my entire life to the one thing that *you*  
yourself consider important to Dovecot? Even though most other people  
don't really care about it?

I think I do pretty well at balancing what other people want for  
Dovecot, what people (companies) pay for me to develop Dovecot to do  
and what I myself want Dovecot to become. I guess in recent months  
I've become worse at this since I've needed more time for school, but  
in general I don't think I've done too badly.

Now, from you I've seen 3 mails within the whole Doveocot's life  
time. If you had actually EVER contributed to Dovecot in any way in  
its entire life time I might have replied differently. If you in no  
way contribute to an open source project, you can't expect commercial  
support out of it without paying for it for someone. And there are  
most likely a lot of companies that would accept your money if you  
wanted it (including the one I work for).

I'm happy to fix this problem for you, the standard company fee being  
120 EUR/hour. Possibly even less if you can convince my supervisors  
to accept it. Estimate for fixing it is about 6 hours (since I have  
to install a system where I have quota). I don't think you can get  
much better support than this elsewhere.

Just don't misunderstand this as me not doing anything unless someone  
pays for it. For most of the last 4 years I've written Dovecot for  
free without getting a single cent for it. I still do, but only as  
long as I consider the changes to be important. If you have a  
different opinion on the imporance, see the paragraph above.
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