DOVEADM(1)

NAME
doveadm - Dovecot's administration utility

SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] command [command_options] [command_arguments]

DESCRIPTION
doveadm is the Dovecot administration tool. It can be used to manage various parts of Dovecot, as well as access users' mailboxes.
Execute doveadm help, for a command usage listing.

OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options:

-D  Enables verbosity and debug messages.

-f formatter
    Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported formatters are:

    flow
        prints each line with key=value pairs.

    pager
        prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records with form feed character (^L).

    tab prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.

    table
        prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.

-v  Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

COMMANDS
These commands work directly with Dovecot's master process.

  reload
doveadm reload

Force dovecot(1) to reload the configuration.

  stop
doveadm stop

Stop dovecot(1) and all its child processes.

  ADDITIONAL MASTER COMMANDS

doveadm director
    doveadm-director(1), Manage Dovecot directors (if used by proxy servers).

doveadm exec
    doveadm-exec(1), Easily execute commands from Dovecot's libexec_dir.

doveadm instance
    doveadm-instance(1), Manage the list of running Dovecot instances.

doveadm kick
    doveadm-kick(1), Disconnect users by user name and/or IP address.

doveadm log
    doveadm-log(1), Locate, test or reopen Dovecot's log files.

doveadm mount
    doveadm-mount(1), Manage the list of mountpoints where mails are stored.

doveadm penalty
    doveadm-penalty(1), Show current penalties.

doveadm who
    doveadm-who(1); Show who is logged in to the Dovecot server.

  AUTHENTICATION COMMANDS

doveadm auth
    doveadm-auth(1), Test authentication for a user.

doveadm pw
    doveadm-pw(1), Dovecot's password hash generator.

doveadm user
    doveadm-user(1), Perform a user lookup in Dovecot's userdbs

  MAILBOX COMMANDS

doveadm altmove
    doveadm-altmove(1), Move matching mails to the alternative storage.

doveadm deduplicate
    doveadm-deduplicate(1), Expunge duplicate messages.

doveadm dump
    doveadm-dump(1), Dump the content of Dovecot's binary mailbox index/log.

doveadm expunge
    doveadm-expunge(1), Expunge messages matching given search query.

doveadm fetch
    doveadm-fetch(1), Fetch messages matching given search query.

doveadm flags
    doveadm-flags(1), Add, remove or replace messages' flags.

doveadm force-resync
    doveadm-force-resync(1), Repair broken mailboxes, in case Dovecot doesn't automatically do that.

doveadm import
    doveadm-import(1), Import messages matching given search query.

doveadm index
    doveadm-index(1), Index messages in a given mailbox.

doveadm mailbox
    doveadm-mailbox(1), Various commands related to handling mailboxes.

doveadm move
    doveadm-move(1) Move messages matching the given search query into another mailbox.

doveadm purge
    doveadm-purge(1) Remove messages with refcount=0 from mdbox files.

doveadm quota
    doveadm-quota(1), Initialize/recalculate or show current quota usage.

doveadm search
    doveadm-search(1), Show a list of mailbox GUIDs and message UIDs matching given search query.

EXIT STATUS
doveadm will exit with one of the following values:

0   Selected command was executed successful.

>0  Command failed in some way.

ENVIRONMENT

USER
    This environment variable is used to determine the user if a command accepts a user but none was specified.

FILES

/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
    Dovecot's main configuration file.

/usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
    Mailbox locations and namespaces.

/usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf
    Plugin specific settings.

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

SEE ALSO
doveadm-help(1), doveconf(1), dovecot(1), dsync(1), doveadm-search-query(7)