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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

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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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