dovecot
brew install dovecot
v2.4.3
BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
IMAP/POP3 server
45
30-day installs · #4907
220
90-day · #4026
832
365-day · #4132
Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://dovecot.org/
- Brew formula source: Formula/d/dovecot.rb
Caveats
For Dovecot to work, you may need to create a dovecot user and group depending on your configuration file options.
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