dovecot-sysreport(1)

dovecot-sysreport1

Dovecot's system report utility

Usage

dovecot-sysreport [{-h | --help}] [{-c | --core [binary] core []}] [{-d | --destination dest}] [{-k | --keeptemp}]

Overview

dovecot-sysreport is a utility that should be used to gather information from the current system to be reported for dovecot bug fixes. It will collect dovecot's ps output, service status, process status, uptime command's output, error log, stats dump and if given, a core file along with its binary dependencies.

Options

-h|--help

Prints a help message.

-c|--config root_config_file

Sets the root file of the dovecot's configuration. If not set, it will be assumed to be in the default configuration path.

-o|--core [ binary ] core [...]

Includes core files along with their dependencies extracted from the specified binary file.

-d|--destination dest

Sets the file location which the report archive should be put to. The default value is dovecot-sysreport-<hostname>-<current_timestamp>.tar.gz in the current path.

-k|--keeptemp

If set, temp files would not be deleted at the end.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

Reporting bugs

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

From dovecot 2.4.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by dovecot23. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.