doveadm-force-resync(1)

1DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1)             Dovecot            DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1)
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NAME

6       doveadm-force-resync - Repair broken mailboxes
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SYNOPSIS

9       doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] mailbox
10       doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] -A mailbox
11       doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] -F file mailbox
12       doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] -u user mailbox
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DESCRIPTION

15       Under certain circumstances it may happen, that dovecot(1) is unable to
16       automatically solve problems with mailboxes.  In  such  situations  the
17       force-resync  command  may  be  helpful.  It tries to fix all problems.
18       For sdbox and mdbox mailboxes the storage files will be also checked.
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OPTIONS

21       Global doveadm(1) options:
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23       -D     Enables verbosity and debug messages.
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25       -o setting=value
26              Overrides  the  configuration  setting  from  /etc/dovecot/dove‐
27              cot.conf  and from the userdb with the given value.  In order to
28              override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified  mul‐
29              tiple times.
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31       -v     Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
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33       Command specific options:
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35       -A     If  the  -A option is present, the command will be performed for
36              all users.  Using this option in combination with  system  users
37              from  userdb  { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it
38              contains also users with a lower UID  than  the  one  configured
39              with the first_valid_uid setting.
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41              When  the  SQL  userdb  module  is used make sure that the iter‐
42              ate_query setting in  /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext  matches
43              your  database  layout.  When using the LDAP userdb module, make
44              sure that  the  iterate_attrs  and  iterate_filter  settings  in
45              /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema.  Oth‐
46              erwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.
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48       -F file
49              Execute the command for all the users in the file.  This is sim‐
50              ilar  to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of users
51              from the userdb, they are read from the given  file.   The  file
52              contains one username per line.
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54       -S socket_path
55              The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX
56              domain socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in  order
57              to connect a remote host via a TCP socket.
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59              This allows an administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands
60              through the given socket.
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62       -u user/mask
63              Run the command only for the given user.  It's also possible  to
64              use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
65              When  neither  the  -A  option,  nor the -F file option, nor the
66              -u user was specified, the command will  be  executed  with  the
67              environment of the currently logged in user.
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ARGUMENTS

70       mailbox
71              The  name of the mailbox to fix. With mdbox all of the mailboxes
72              are fixed, so you can use for example INBOX as the name.
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EXAMPLE

75       Fix bob's INBOX:
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77       doveadm force-resync -u bob INBOX
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REPORTING BUGS

80       Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing  List
81       <dovecot@dovecot.org>.   Information  about reporting bugs is available
82       at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
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