[lrosenman:~] $ brew install dovecot Updating Homebrew... ==> Auto-updated Homebrew! Updated Homebrew from e3f69a48 to 2063a8a4. Updated 2 taps (homebrew/core and homebrew/cask). ==> Updated Formulae annie erlang

==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/dovecot-2.3.2.1.mojave.bott ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> Pouring dovecot-2.3.2.1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz Error: The brew link step did not complete successfully The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local Could not symlink sbin/dovecot /usr/local/sbin is not writable.

You can try again using: brew link dovecot ==> Caveats For Dovecot to work, you may need to create a dovecot user and group depending on your configuration file options.

To have launchd start dovecot now and restart at startup: sudo brew services start dovecot ==> Summary 🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.2.1: 1,109 files, 20.2MB [lrosenman:~] 1 $ sudo ls -la /usr/local/sbin Password: ls: /usr/local/sbin: No such file or directory [lrosenman:~] 1 $ sudo ls -la /usr/local/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 544 Oct 29 09:34 . drwxr-xr-x@ 10 root wheel 320 Oct 29 09:34 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 0 Nov 15 18:18 .com.apple.installer.keep drwxrwxr-x@ 7 503 admin 224 Nov 23 18:29 Caskroom drwxrwxr-x@ 114 lrosenman admin 3648 Nov 24 15:49 Cellar drwxr-xr-x@ 3 503 admin 96 Oct 29 07:04 Frameworks drwxrwxr-x@ 21 lrosenman admin 672 Nov 6 06:52 Homebrew drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 96 Oct 29 07:42 MacGPG2 drwxrwxr-x@ 695 lrosenman admin 22240 Nov 24 15:49 bin drwxrwxr-x@ 22 lrosenman admin 704 Nov 24 15:49 etc drwxr-xr-x@ 7 lrosenman admin 224 Oct 29 07:43 gnupg-2.1 drwxrwxr-x@ 190 lrosenman admin 6080 Nov 24 14:59 include drwxrwxr-x@ 301 lrosenman admin 9632 Nov 24 14:59 lib drwxrwxr-x@ 138 lrosenman admin 4416 Nov 24 15:49 opt drwxr-xr-x@ 3 lrosenman admin 96 Oct 29 07:25 remotedesktop drwxrwxr-x@ 47 lrosenman admin 1504 Nov 23 18:27 share drwxrwxr-x@ 10 lrosenman admin 320 Oct 29 07:42 var [lrosenman:~] $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/sbin [lrosenman:~] $ sudo chown lrosenman:admin /usr/local/sbin/ [lrosenman:~] $ subrew link dovecot Linking /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.3.2.1... 57 symlinks created [lrosenman:~] $

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On 11/24/18, 3:43 PM, "dovecot on behalf of David Morsberger" wrote:

Is there any information on using dovecot on Mojave? I have been using Mac OS Server for a few years and looking for the preferred way to move to Mojave since dovecot and postfix admin support has been dropped by Apple.