[Discuss] Stalwart E-mail; Was: Re: SSH options

[Steve Litt]

Kent Borg said on Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:13:57 -0800


>Yes, awhile back I ran across https://stalw.art, and I was very
>excited by it.
>
>But as I looked more carefully I decided I didn't like it.
>
>It is an all-singing, all-dancing, full featured, integrated, do-all 
>solution! But I just want to swap something in for Dovecot. And maybe 
>swap it back out if it doesn't work for me.

Replacing Dovecot is also my goal.

>But Stalwart is 100% take it or leave it, and once one is 100% in I 
>don't think there is going to be much motivated support for ever
>getting out.

Doesn't Stalwart offer a way to turn the other stuff off, so you can
continue doing everything else just like you've always done? If the
answer is "no", that's a horrible violation of modularity. If the
answer is "yes", I'm *very* interested. My attitude toward Dovecot is
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I don't want
to end up a fool somewhere down the road.

>Lock-in doesn't just happen with commercial products.

So few people realize this, much to our ecosystem's detriment.

>-kb, the Kent whose current idea is Cyrus IMAP.

Kent, I want to hear all about Cyrus IMAP, starting with this question:
Can it store all its emails in Maildir format?

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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