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DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1)NAME
doveadm-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 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
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 avail-
able at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO doveadm(1)Dovecot v2.2 2010-11-25 DOVEADM-FORCE-RESYNC(1)