This is probably the way, because a traditional “mail server” is actually 4-5 different servers working together.
- postfix for SMTP
- dovecot for IMAP
- amavis to plug in…
- spamassassin as anti spam
- clam-av as antivirus
And they can all be very easily misconfigured to break everything completely. Great learning experience though.
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Looks amazing. But the dual licensing scares me. The open variant could be artificially limited in functionality or could end up basic abandon ware.
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
A project ending as abandonware is always a possibility. One reason projects get abandoned is losing funding, which can be secured by using dual licensing and selling some features to businesses.
They use AGPL so even if they broke their promise and restricted features, it could still be developed further (even if no new features got added). NGINX also uses a dual license.
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
That is not my point.
Having a CE or OS version and an Enterprise Version can lead to conflict of interest. Do you add a feature to the OS Version or do you spend time on the Enterprise feature? There are a lot of examples, Emby is one, others are escaping me right now.
There are other models that work well like paid support etc. Nonetheless i will stay away.