Mastodawn

Because of the ridiculous decision from #dovecot, replication between two servers won't be possible anymore.

I have - against all advices - ran my own mail server since 2019. It has served me and my family pretty well over these years.

Now it's time to migrate. And that's painful.

It looks like I'm going to Stalwart. Just to get the infrastructure ready - Foundation DB cluster, two Garage nodes for replication, Zabbix, etc, took a lot of time.

I hope #Stalwart will bit worth it.

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advokatt 2d ago

@francis i am going to stay on 2.3 as long as possible -- not because of replication, but because of other configuration changes.

why did you have to migrate?

apart from #stalwart, i hear that #mox is good

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Francis Augusto Medeiros 2d ago

@km Replication is _really_ important to me. I am a bit paranoid about loosing e-mails, and other family members use it as well. Replication has saved us way more than once.

E-mail needs to be up, and replication as it works with Dovecot is amazing.

I'll achieve the same with Stalwart, but having to use databases introduced a complexity that I really would rather not to have to deal with. But, oh well, I just dealt with it now :D

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advokatt

@francis https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/EDQDMD-dovecot_-_replicating_replication_highly_available_open_source_dovecot_2_4_serve/slides/267081/presentat_89zlfre.pdf