DOVEADM-DUMP(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-DUMP(1)
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 sd-
box and mdbox, the index files are part of the format itself. For de-
tails 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 de-
velopers 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/dove-
cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to
override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul-
tiple 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 omit-
ted, 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-ex-
punges.log. Currently used only by fts-lucene.
fts-lucene Dump the list of indexed mails in lucene-indexes di-
rectory
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
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1)
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