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/IndexFiles

       doveadm dump is used to show the contents of those mailbox index/log files, in human readable format. This is mainly use-
       ful for Dovecot developers when debugging some problem.

OPTIONS
       Global doveadm(1) options:

       -D     Enables verbosity and debug messages.

       -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:

              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 index or log file. If only a directory is specified, doveadm tries to find and dump
              index type file under it.

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 <dovecotATdovecot.org>.  Information about  report-
       ing bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)



Dovecot v2.0                                               2010-06-22                                            DOVEADM-DUMP(1)