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.
- -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)
- 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)