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NAME
       doveconf - Dovecot's configuration dumping utility

SYNOPSIS
       doveconf [-anNx] [-c config-file] [-f filter] [-m module]
       doveconf [-n] [-c config-file] section_name ...
       doveconf [-h] [-c config-file] [-f filter] setting_name ...

DESCRIPTION
       doveconf reads and parses Dovecot's configuration files and converts them into a simpler format used by the rest of Dove-
       cot. All standalone programs, such as dovecot(1) and dovecot-lda(1), will first get their settings by executing doveconf.

       For system administrators, doveconf is mainly useful for dumping the configuration in easy human readable output.

OPTIONS
       -a     Show all settings with their currently configured values.

       -c config-file
              read configuration from the given config-file.  By default /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf will be used.

       -f filter
              Show the matching configuration for the specified filter condition.  The filter option string has to be  given  as
              name=value pair.  For multiple filter conditions the -f option can be supplied multiple times.
              Possible names for the filter are:

              lname  The local hostname, e.g. mail.example.com.  This will only match hostnames which were configured like:
                     local_name mail.example.com { # special settings }

              local  The server's hostname or IP address.  This will also match hostnames which were configured like:
                     local imap.example.net { # special settings }

              protocol, service
                     The protocol, e.g. imap or pop3

              remote The client's hostname or IP address.

       -h     Hide the setting's name, show only the setting's value.

       -m module
              Show only settings for the given module.
              e.g.  imap, imap-login, lmtp, pop3 or pop3-login

       -n     Show only settings with non-default values.

       -N     Show settings with non-default values and explicitly set default values.

       -x     Expand  configuration  variables  (e.g.  $mail_plugins  =>  quota)  and  show  file contents (from e.g. ssl_cert =
              </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem).

       section_name
              Show only the current configuration of one or more specified sections.

       setting_name
              Show only the setting of one or more setting_name(s) with the currently configured value. You can show  a  setting
              inside a section using '/' as the section separator, e.g.  service/imap/executable.

EXAMPLE
       When  Dovecot  was  configured  to use different settings for some networks/subnets it is possible to show which settings
       will be applied for a specific connection.

       doveconf -f local=10.0.0.110 -f remote=10.11.1.2 -f service=pop3 -n

       doveconf can be also used to convert v1.x configuration files into v2.0 format.

       doveconf -n -c /oldpath/dovecot.conf > /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.new

       This example shows how to ask doveconf for a global setting and a protocol specific setting.   The  second  command  uses
       also the -h option, in order to hide the setting's name.

       doveconf mail_plugins
       mail_plugins = quota
       doveconf -h -f protocol=imap mail_plugins
       quota imap_quota

       This example demonstrates how to dump a whole configuration section.

       doveconf dict
       dict {
         quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
       }

       Or how to dump only the quota dict:

       doveconf dict/quota
       dict/quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext

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(1), dovecot-lda(1), dsync(1)



Dovecot v2.0                                               2011-05-11                                                DOVECONF(1)