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.

              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)