DOVEADM-SEARCH(1)						      Dovecot							 DOVEADM-SEARCH(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] search [-S socket_path] search_query
       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] search [-S socket_path] -A search_query
       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] search [-S socket_path] -u user search_query

DESCRIPTION

       The search command is used to find matching messages.  doveadm(1) will print the mailbox's guid and the message's uid for each match.
       When used with the -A or -u wildcard options, doveadm(1) will print the fields username, mailbox-guid and uid for each matching message.

       In the first form, doveadm(1) will executed the search action with the environment of the logged in system user.

       In the second form, the command will be performed for all users.

       In the third form, only matching mails of the given user(s) will be searched.

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.

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

       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 iterate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches your data-
	      base layout.  When using the LDAP userdb module, make sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter settings in	/etc/dovecot/dove-
	      cot-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 command will be executed with the environment of the currently	logged	in
	      user.

ARGUMENTS

       search_query
	      Show messages matching this search query.  See doveadm-search-query(7) for details.

EXAMPLE

       This  example  demonstrates  how  to  search  in  user bob's dovecot mailboxes all messages, which contains the word "todo" in the Subject:
       header.

       doveadm search -u bob mailbox dovecot* subject todo
       3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a   8
       3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a   25
       3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a   45

       The search command is mainly useful when used together with doveadm fetch command. For example to save message bodies of all messages  from
       INBOX that have "todo" in subject, use:

       doveadm search -u bob mailbox INBOX subject todo |
       while read guid uid; do
	 doveadm fetch -u bob body mailbox-guid $guid uid $uid > msg.$uid
       done

REPORTING BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

       doveadm(1), doveadm-fetch(1), doveadm-search-query(7)

Dovecot v2.1							    2010-11-25							 DOVEADM-SEARCH(1)