Section 1 · User commands

doveadm-dump.1

Package: dovecot

DOVEADM−DUMP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ARGUMENTS
EXAMPLE
REPORTING BUGS
SEE ALSO

NAME

doveadm−dump − Dump the content of Dovecot’s binary mailbox index/log

SYNOPSIS

doveadm [−Dv] dump [−t type] path

DESCRIPTION

Dovecot uses several binary index and log files in order to improve performance for accessing mails. For some mailbox formats, such as sdbox and mdbox, the index files are part of the format itself. For details about index files, see also: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles

doveadm dump is used to show the contents of those mailbox index/log files, in human readable format. This is mainly useful for Dovecot developers when debugging some problem.

OPTIONS

Global doveadm(1) options:


	−D		Enables verbosity and debug messages.

**−o setting=**value

Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the −o option may be specified multiple times.


	−v		Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

Command specific options: **
−t **type

the file type of the file to be dumped. If the type was omitted, doveadm(1) tries to detect the type of path. type can be:


	dbox		⇒ m.n (sdbox or mdbox mailbox file)

fts−expunge−log

Dump the list of expunged mails in dovecot−expunges.log. Currently used only by fts−lucene.


	fts−lucene		Dump the list of indexed mails in lucene−indexes directory
	imapzlib		Uncompress an IMAP traffic log, which contains data compressed using the IMAP COMPRESSION extension.
	dcrypt-file		Dump metadata of a dcrypt encrypted file.
	dcrypt-key		Dump metadata of a dcrypt key.
	index		⇒ dovecot.index, dovecot.map.index
	log		⇒ dovecot.index.log, dovecot.map.index.log
	mailboxlog		⇒ dovecot.mailbox.log
	thread		⇒ dovecot.index.thread

ARGUMENTS


	path		The path to the corresponding dbox storage, index or log file. If only a directory is specified, doveadm tries to detect the type of files under it and dumps them.

EXAMPLE

Look at the contents of a mailbox’s index:

doveadm dump ~/Maildir/.work/

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs, including doveconf −n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html