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+require 'brewkit'
+
+class Dovecot <Formula
+  @url='http://www.dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.4.tar.gz'
+  @homepage='http://dovecot.org/'
+  @md5='3e5717d13e3d6b32d3f4b809df397dbf'
+
+  def install
+    system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}",
+                          "--disable-debug",
+                          "--disable-dependency-tracking",
+                          "--sysconfdir=#{prefix}/etc",
+                          "--localstatedir=#{prefix}/var",
+                          "--with-ssl=openssl",
+                          "--with-ioloop=kqueue"
+    system "make install"
+
+    # TODO: automate some of the caveats?
+  end
+
+  def caveats
+    puts <<-EOS
+==============================================================
+For Dovecot to work, you will need to do the following:
+
+1) create configuration in #{prefix}/etc
+
+2) If required by the configuration above, create a dovecot user and group
+
+3) possibly create a launchd item in /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.dovecot.plist, like so:
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
+        "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
+<plist version="1.0">
+<dict>
+        <key>Label</key>
+        <string>org.dovecot</string>
+        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
+        <array>
+                <string>#{prefix}/sbin/dovecot</string>
+        </array>
+        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
+        <true/>
+</dict>
+</plist>
+==============================================================
+    EOS
+  end
+end