NAME¶
doveadm-mount - Manage the list of mountpoints where mails are stored
SYNOPSIS¶
doveadm [
-Dv] [
-f formatter]
mount
command [
arguments]
DESCRIPTION¶
The doveadm
mount commands can be used to manage the list of
mountpoints where mails are stored. This is used mainly for better error
handling when a mountpoint isn't mounted for some reason:
- *
- If a mail directory doesn't exist, it's autocreated. If the user's mails
aren't mounted and filesystem permissions still allow the autocreation,
the user will see an empty mailbox and later will have to redownload all
mails. If the mountpoint is known to be unmounted, Dovecot will simply
fail opening any mailboxes.
- *
- If dbox alternate storage isn't mounted and a mail in it is attempted to
be accessed, Dovecot normally rebuilds the indexes and notices that all
the mails in alt storage are expunged. When the alt storage is mounted
back and even if index is again rebuilt, the mails won't necessarily
become visible anymore for IMAP clients. If the mountpoint is known to be
unmounted, Dovecot won't rebuild indexes and lose the mails.
Dovecot automatically adds mountpoints to this list at startup. If you don't
want some of the mountpoints added, you can add a wildcard ignore for it.
OPTIONS¶
Global
doveadm(1) options:
- -D
- Enables verbosity and debug messages.
- -f formatter
- Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported
formatters are:
- flow
- prints each line with key=value pairs.
- pager
- prints each key: value pair on its own line and
separates records with form feed character (^L).
- tab
- prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.
- table
- prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.
- -v
- Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
ARGUMENTS¶
- path
- The directory name of a mountpoint
- state
- The state of a mountpoint. Either online or
ignore.
COMMANDS¶
mount add¶
doveadm mount add [
path [
state]]
If this command is run without any parameters, doveadm detects all missing
mountpoints and adds them (the same way as when Dovecot does at startup).
When a mountpoint
path is given, it's added as a mountpoint. The
state can currently be either "
online" (default) or
"
ignore". The ignore state is mainly useful with path
wildcards to add mountpoints that you never want Dovecot to automatically add,
such as:
doveadm mount add '/mnt/*' ignore
mount list¶
doveadm [
-Dv ] [
-f formatter]
mount list
This command lists the mountpoints known to Dovecot and their state.
mount remove¶
doveadm mount remove path
This command removes the specified
path from the mountpoint list.
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)