DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1)NAMEdoveadm-force-resync - Repair broken mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] mailbox
doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] -A mailbox
doveadm [-Dv] force-resync [-S socket_path] -u user mailbox
DESCRIPTION
Under certain circumstances it may happen, that dovecot(1) is unable to
automatically solve problems with mailboxes. In such situations the
force-resync command may be helpful. It tries to fix all problems.
For sdbox and mdbox mailboxes the storage files will be also checked.
OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options:
-D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
Command specific options:
-A If the -A option is present, the command will be performed for
all users. Using this option in combination with system users
from userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it
contains also users with a lower UID than the one configured
with the first_valid_uid setting.
When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iter‐
ate_query setting in /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
matches your database layout. When using the LDAP userdb mod‐
ule, make sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter set‐
tings in /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your
LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate
over all users.
-S socket_path
The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX
domain socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in order
to connect a remote host via a TCP socket.
This allows an administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands
through the given socket.
-u user/mask
Run the command only for the given user. It's also possible to
use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
When neither the -A option nor -u user was specified, the com‐
mand will be executed with the environment of the currently
logged in user.
ARGUMENTS
mailbox
The name of the mailbox to fix. With mdbox all of the mailboxes
are fixed, so you can use for example INBOX as the name.
EXAMPLE
Fix bob's INBOX:
doveadm force-resync -u bob INBOX
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 ALSODovecot v2.1 2010-11-25 DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1)
