Ubuntu Manpage: doveadm-fetch - Fetch partial/full messages or message information

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NAME

       doveadm-fetch - Fetch partial/full messages or message information

SYNOPSIS

       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] fetch [-S socket_path] fields search_query
       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] fetch [-S socket_path] -A fields search_query
       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] fetch [-S socket_path] -u user fields search_query

DESCRIPTION

       doveadm fetch can be used to fetch messages' contents and metadata. This can be useful for
       scripts  and  for  debugging.  If  you  want  to  fetch  messages  one  at  a  time,   see
       doveadm-search(1).

       Important:
              Please respect your users' privacy.

OPTIONS

Global doveadm(1) options:

-D Enables verbosity and debug messages.

-f formatter
Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported formatters are:

flow prints each line with key=value pairs.

pager prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records with form
feed character (^L).

tab prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.

table prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.

-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

This command uses by default the output formatter pager.

Command specific 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 iterate_query setting in
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches your database layout. When using the
LDAP userdb module, make sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter settings in
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1)
will be unable to iterate over all users.

-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).
When neither the -A option nor -u user was specified, the command will be executed
with the environment of the currently logged in user.

ARGUMENTS

fields One or more result field names to display, if the search_query matches any
messages. In order to specify multiple fields, enclose them in single or double
quotes.
Supported fields are:

body The body of a message.

date.received
Date and time of final delivery, when the message was delivered to a user's
mailbox for the first time.
The internal date and time of the source message, when the message was
copied by the IMAP COPY command.
The date-time attribute when present, otherwise the current time, when the
message was saved by the IMAP APPEND command.

date.saved
Date and time when the message was saved to mailbox.

date.sent
Date and time of the message's Date: header.

flags A message's IMAP flags, e.g. \Seen

guid A message's globally unique identifier.

hdr The header of the message.

imap.body
IMAP BODY output of the message (see RFC 3501).

imap.bodystructure
IMAP BODYSTRUCTURE output of the message (see RFC 3501).

imap.envelope
IMAP ENVELOPE output of the message (see RFC 3501).

mailbox
Name of the mailbox, in which the message is stored. The name is in UTF-8.

mailbox-guid
The globally unique identifier of the mailbox, in which the message is
located.

pop3.uidl
A message's unique (POP3) identifier within a mailbox.

seq A message's sequence number in a mailbox.

size.physical
A message's physical size.

size.virtual
A message's virtual size, computed with CRLF line terminators.

text The entire message (header and body).

text.utf8
The entire message (header and body) — UTF-8 encoded.

uid A message's unique (IMAP) identifier in a mailbox.

user A message owner's login name.

search_query
Fetch messages matching this search query. See doveadm-search-query(7) for
details.

EXAMPLE

       This  example  based  on  the  first  example from doveadm-search(1).  We are fetching the
       fields    mailbox and date.sent    from    user    bob's    mailbox    with    the    guid
       "3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a" for the messages with the UIDs 8, 25 and 45.

       doveadm fetch -u bob "mailbox date.sent" \
       mailbox-guid 3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a uid 8,25,45
       mailbox: dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0
       date.sent: 2010-01-19 01:17:41 (+0100)
       ^L
       mailbox: dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0
       date.sent: 2010-01-28 09:38:49 (+0100)
       ^L
       mailbox: dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0
       date.sent: 2010-03-28 18:41:14 (+0200)
       ^L

REPORTING BUGS

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