Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Dovecot authors, see the included COPYING file
DOVEADM-DUMP 1 "2014-08-24" "Dovecot v2.3" "Dovecot"
NAME
doveadm-dump - Dump the content of Dovecot\(aqs 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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:

12 dbox \(rA m.\c 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 \(rA dovecot.index, dovecot.map.index

log \(rA dovecot.index.log, dovecot.map.index.log

mailboxlog \(rA dovecot.mailbox.log

thread \(rA dovecot.index.thread

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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\(aqs index: 

 doveadm dump ~/Maildir/.work/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 SEE ALSO
 doveadm (1)