Linux Certif

Toute la documentation sur la certification Linux LPI

doveadm-dump

NAME

doveadm-dump - Dump the content of Dovecotaqs 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.

-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:

index

rA dovecot.index, dovecot.map.index

log

rA dovecot.index.log, dovecot.map.index.log

mailboxlog

rA dovecot.mailbox.log

thread

rA dovecot.index.thread

ARGUMENTS

path

The path to the corresponding index or log file. If only a directory is specified, doveadm tries to find and dump index type file under it.

EXAMPLE

Look at the contents of a mailboxaqs 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)