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DOVEADM-DUMP(1)			    Dovecot		       DOVEADM-DUMP(1)

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/Index‐
       Files

       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 /usr/local/etc/dove‐
	      cot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given  value.   In
	      order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be speci‐
	      fied 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	 omit‐
	      ted, 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	 dove‐
			  cot-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)

Dovecot v2.2			  2014-08-24		       DOVEADM-DUMP(1)

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