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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  /etc/dovecot/dove-
              cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value.  In order  to
              override  multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul-
              tiple 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.
              dcrypt-file Dump metadata of a dcrypt encrypted file.
              dcrypt-key  Dump metadata of a dcrypt key.
              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 AT dovecot.org>.  Information about reporting bugs  is  available
       at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)

Dovecot v2.3                      2014-08-24                   DOVEADM-DUMP(1)