doveadm-force-resync(1) - Repair broken mailboxes

SYNOPSIS

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -A mailbox

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -F file mailbox

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] --no-userdb-lookup mailbox

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] 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

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

SEE ALSO

doveadm(1)