doveadm-rebuild¶

NAME¶

doveadm-rebuild - Commands related to rebuilding various aspects of mails matching given search query.

SYNOPSIS¶

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] rebuild <command> [-S socket_path] -A search_query

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] rebuild <command> [-S socket_path] -F file search_query

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] rebuild <command> [-S socket_path] -u user search_query

DESCRIPTION¶

The rebuild attachments command is used to rebuilds attachment presence. doveadm(1) will print the message’s uid for each match.

When used with the -A or -u wildcard options, doveadm(1) will print the fields username and uid for each matching message.

In the first form, doveadm(1) will execute the rebuild action for all users.

In the second form, the command will be performed for all users listed in the given file.

In the last form, only matching mails of the given user (s) will be rebuilt

GLOBAL OPTIONS¶

Global doveadm(1) options:

-D: Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-O: Do not read any config file, just use defaults.
-k: Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment.
-v: Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
-i instance-name: If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on this instance name. See instance_name setting for more information.
-c config-file: Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance running compatible version.
-o setting=value: Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.

-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.

This command uses by default the output formatter flow (without the key = prefix).

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 iterate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches your database layout. When using the LDAP userdb module, make sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter settings in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.

-F file: Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is similar to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of users from the userdb, they are read from the given file. The file contains one username per line.

-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).

ARGUMENTS¶

search_query: Resets attachment indicator for messages matching this search query. See doveadm-search-query(7) for details.

EXAMPLE¶

This example demonstrates how to rebuild user bob’s attachment status.

doveadm rebuild attachments -u bob ALL
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REPORTING BUGS¶

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