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6 doveadm-dump - Dump the content of Dovecot's binary mailbox index/log
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9 doveadm [-Dv] dump [-t type] path
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12 Dovecot uses several binary index and log files in order to improve
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18 doveadm dump is used to show the contents of those mailbox index/log
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23 Global doveadm(1) options:
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25 -D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
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33 -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
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38 the file type of the file to be dumped. If the type was omit‐
39 ted, doveadm(1) tries to detect the type of path. type can be:
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41 dbox ⇒ m.n (sdbox or mdbox mailbox file)
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44 Dump the list of expunged mails in dove‐
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51 imapzlib Uncompress an IMAP traffic log, which contains data
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54 dcrypt-file Dump metadata of a dcrypt encrypted file.
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58 index ⇒ dovecot.index, dovecot.map.index
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67 path The path to the corresponding dbox storage, index or log file.
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74 doveadm dump ~/Maildir/.work/
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77 Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
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