DOVEADM-DUMP(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-DUMP(1)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/Index‐
Files
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 omit‐
ted, 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 ALSOdoveadm(1)Dovecot v2.2 2012-02-21 DOVEADM-DUMP(1)