Notes on Doveadm

Some quick notes for myself about using doveadm and managing mailboxes. It should be no surprise, that if you are an admin with a server, you can read any email/files on that server.

List users

doveadm user '*'

List mailboxes for user

doveadmm mailbox list -u <user>

Show messages in trash for user older than 30 days

doveadm search -u <user> Trash NOT SINCE 30days

Delete messages in trash for all users older than 30 days

doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash NOT SINCE 30days

Delete messages from users mailbox older than 6 months and not flagged

doveadm expunge -u <user> mailbox <mailbox> NOT SINCE 26weeks NOT FLAGGED

Output and users email

doveadm fetch -u <user> "text" MAILBOX <mailbox> UID <email_uid>

Fix index on a mailbox

doveadm index -u <user> <mailbox>

Sync users mailboxes with backup server

doveadm -v sync -u <user> -d