DOVEADM-HELP(1)                     Dovecot                    DOVEADM-HELP(1)

NAME
       doveadm-help - Show information about doveadm commands

SYNOPSIS
       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] help [command]

DESCRIPTION
       With no command argument given, doveadm help will print:

       o   the synopsis for the most of the doveadm(1) commands,

       o   groups of commands, e.g. log or mailbox.


       When the name of a command (or a group) was given, it will show the man
       page for that command.

GLOBAL OPTIONS
       Global doveadm(1) options:

       -D

           Enables verbosity and debug messages.



       -O

           Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The
           dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the latest version, but
           can be overridden with -o.



       -k

           Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just
           import_environment setting.



       -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.



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>

SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)

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