doveadm-dump (1)

doveadm [-Dv] dump [-t type] path

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.

Global doveadm(1) options:

-D

Enables verbosity and debug messages.

-v

Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

Command specific options:

-ttype

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

\(rA m. .I n (sdbox or mdbox mailbox file)

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

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.

Look at the contents of a mailbox's index:

doveadm dump ~/Maildir/.work/

Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <[email protected]>. Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

doveadm(1)