Mac Mojave Server

[Larry Rosenman]

[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
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==> 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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Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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On 11/24/18, 3:43 PM, "dovecot on behalf of David Morsberger" <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org on behalf of dave at morsberger.com> 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.