SYNOPSIS
doveconf [-adnNSx] [-c config-file] [-f filter] [-m module]doveconf [-n] [-c config-file] section_name ...
doveconf [-h] [-c config-file] [-f filter] setting_name ...
DESCRIPTION
doveconf reads and parses Dovecot's configuration files and converts them into a simpler format used by the rest of Dovecot. All standalone programs, such as dovecot(1) and dovecot-lda(1), will first get their settings by executing doveconf.For system administrators, doveconf is mainly useful for dumping the configuration in easy human readable output.
OPTIONS
- -a
- Show all settings with their currently configured values.
- -c config-file
- read configuration from the given config-file. By default /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf will be used.
- -d
- Show the setting's default value instead of the one currently configured.
- -f filter
-
Show the matching configuration for the specified
filter
condition.
The
filter
option string has to be given as
name=value
pair.
For multiple filter conditions the
-f
option can be supplied multiple times.
Possible names for the filter are:-
- lname
-
The local hostname, e.g. mail.example.com.
This will only match hostnames which were configured like:
local_name mail.example.com { # special settings } - local
-
The server's hostname or IP address.
This will also match hostnames which were configured like:
local imap.example.net { # special settings } - protocol, service
- The protocol, e.g. imap or pop3
- remote
- The client's hostname or IP address.
-
- -h
- Hide the setting's name, show only the setting's value.
- -m module
-
Show only settings for the given
module.
- e.g. imap, imap-login, lmtp, pop3 or pop3-login
- -n
- Show only settings with non-default values.
- -N
- Show settings with non-default values and explicitly set default values.
- -S
- Dump settings in simplified machine parsable/readable format.
- -x
- Expand configuration variables (e.g. $mail_plugins ⇒ quota) and show file contents (from e.g. ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem).
- section_name
- Show only the current configuration of one or more specified sections.
- setting_name
- Show only the setting of one or more setting_name(s) with the currently configured value. You can show a setting inside a section using '/' as the section separator, e.g. service/imap/executable.
EXAMPLE
When Dovecot was configured to use different settings for some networks/subnets it is possible to show which settings will be applied for a specific connection.
doveconf -f local=10.0.0.110 -f remote=10.11.1.2 -f service=pop3 -n
doveconf can be also used to convert v1.x configuration files into v2.x format.
doveconf -n -c /oldpath/dovecot.conf > /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.new
This example shows how to ask doveconf for a global setting and a protocol specific setting. The second command uses also the -h option, in order to hide the setting's name.
doveconf mail_plugins mail_plugins = quota doveconf -h -f protocol=imap mail_plugins quota imap_quota
This example demonstrates how to dump a whole configuration section.
doveconf dict
dict {
quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
}
Or how to dump only the quota dict:
doveconf dict/quota dict/quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext