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.

       -o setting=value
              Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the  userdb  with  the
              given  value.   In  order  to  override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple
              times.

       -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)

              fts-expunge-log
                          Dump  the  list  of  expunged  mails  in dovecot-expunges.log.  Currently used only by
                          fts-lucene.

              fts-lucene  Dump the list of indexed mails in lucene-indexes directory

              imapzlib    Uncompress an IMAP  traffic  log,  which  contains  data  compressed  using  the  IMAP
                          COMPRESSION extension.

              dcrypt-file Dump metadata of a dcrypt encrypted file.

              dcrypt-key  Dump metadata of a dcrypt key.

              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)

Dovecot v2.3                                       2014-08-24                                    DOVEADM-DUMP(1)