NAME

       doveadm-force-resync - Repair broken mailboxes

SYNOPSIS

       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -A mailbox

       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -F file mailbox

       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] --no-userdb-lookup mailbox

       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -u user mailbox

DESCRIPTION

       Under certain circumstances it may happen, that dovecot(1) is unable to automatically solve problems with
       mailboxes. In such situations the

GLOBAL OPTIONS

       Global doveadm(1)

       -D

           Enables verbosity and debug messages.

       -O

           Do  not  read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the
           latest version, but can be overridden with

       -k

           Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment setting.

       -v

           Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

       -i instance-name

           If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on this instance name.

           See instance_name setting for more information.

       -c config-file

           Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first  reads  config  socket,  and  then
           falls  back  to  /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance
           running compatible version.

       -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.

OPTIONS

       -A

           If the -A option is present, the command will be performed  for  all  users.  Using  this  option  in
           combination with system users from userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it contains
           also users with a lower UID than the one configured with the first_valid_uid setting.

           When  the  SQL  userdb  module  is  used, make sure that the userdb_sql_iterate_query setting setting
           matches your database layout.

           When  using  the   LDAP   userdb   module,   make   sure   that   the   userdb_fields   setting   and
           userdb_ldap_iterate_fields  setting  settings  match  your  LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be
           unable to iterate over all users.

       -F file

           Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is similar to the -A option, but  instead  of
           getting  the  list of users from the userdb, they are read from the given file. The file contains one
           username per line.

       --no-userdb-lookup

           Do not perform userdb lookup. Use the USER environment variable to specify the username.

       -S socket_path

           The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX domain socket,  or  a  hostname  and
           port (hostname:port), in order to connect a remote host via a TCP socket.

           This allows an administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands through the given socket.

       -u user/mask

           Run  the  command  only  for the given user. It's also possible to use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u
           *@example.org).

ARGUMENTS

       mailbox

           The name of the mailbox to fix. With mdbox all of the mailboxes are fixed, so you can use for example
           INBOX as the name.

EXAMPLE

       Fix bob's INBOX:

         doveadm force-resync -u bob INBOX

REPORTING BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

       doveadm(1)

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