SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] dump [-t type] pathDESCRIPTION
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/IndexFilesdoveadm 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.
- 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/