doveadm-fetch

DOVEADM-FETCH(1)                    Dovecot                   DOVEADM-FETCH(1)

NAME
       doveadm-fetch - Fetch partial/full messages or message information

SYNOPSIS
       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] fetch [-S socket_path] fields search_query
       doveadm   [-Dv]   [-f  formatter]  fetch  [-S  socket_path]  -A  fields
       search_query
       doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] fetch  [-S  socket_path]  -F  file  fields
       search_query
       doveadm  [-Dv]  [-f  formatter]  fetch  [-S socket_path] -u user fields
       search_query

DESCRIPTION
       doveadm fetch can be used to fetch  messages'  contents  and  metadata.
       This  can be useful for scripts and for debugging. If you want to fetch
       messages one at a time, see doveadm-search(1).

       Important:
              Please respect your users' privacy.

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.

       -o setting=value
              Overrides  the  configuration  setting  from  /etc/dovecot/dove-
              cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value.  In order  to
              override  multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul-
              tiple times.

       -v     Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

       This command uses by default the output formatter pager.

       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  iter-
              ate_query  setting  in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches
              your database layout.  When using the LDAP userdb  module,  make
              sure  that  the  iterate_attrs  and  iterate_filter  settings in
              /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema.  Oth-
              erwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.

       -F file
              Execute the command for all the users in the file.  This is sim-
              ilar to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of  users
              from  the  userdb,  they are read from the given file.  The file
              contains one username per line.

       -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  the  -F file  option,  nor  the
              -u user was specified, the command will be executed with the en-
              vironment of the currently logged in user.

ARGUMENTS
       fields One or more result field names to display, if  the  search_query
              matches  any messages.  In order to specify multiple fields, en-
              close them in single or double quotes.
              Supported fields are:

              body   The body of a message.

              date.received
                     Date and time of final delivery, when the message was de-
                     livered to a user's mailbox for the first time.
                     The  internal  date  and time of the source message, when
                     the message was copied by the IMAP COPY command.
                     The date-time attribute when present, otherwise the  cur-
                     rent  time, when the message was saved by the IMAP APPEND
                     command.

              date.saved
                     Date and time when the message was saved to mailbox.

              date.sent
                     Date and time of the message's Date: header.

              flags  A message's IMAP flags, e.g. \Seen

              guid   A message's globally unique identifier.

              hdr    The header of the message.

              imap.body
                     IMAP BODY output of the message (see RFC 3501).

              imap.bodystructure
                     IMAP BODYSTRUCTURE output of the message (see RFC 3501).

              imap.envelope
                     IMAP ENVELOPE output of the message (see RFC 3501).

              mailbox
                     Name of the mailbox, in which the message is stored.  The
                     name is in UTF-8.

              mailbox-guid
                     The  globally  unique identifier of the mailbox, in which
                     the message is located.

              pop3.uidl
                     A message's unique (POP3) identifier within a mailbox.

              seq    A message's sequence number in a mailbox.

              size.physical
                     A message's physical size.

              size.virtual
                     A message's virtual size, computed with CRLF line  termi-
                     nators.

              text   The entire message (header and body).

              text.utf8
                     The entire message (header and body) -- UTF-8 encoded.

              uid    A message's unique (IMAP) identifier in a mailbox.

              user   A message owner's login name.

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

EXAMPLE
       This example based on the first example from doveadm-search(1).  We are
       fetching  the fields mailbox and date.sent from user bob's mailbox with
       the guid "3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a" for the messages  with  the
       UIDs 8, 25 and 45.

       doveadm fetch -u bob "mailbox date.sent" \
       mailbox-guid 3a94c928d66ebe4bda04000015811c6a uid 8,25,45
       mailbox: dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0
       date.sent: 2010-01-19 01:17:41 (+0100)
       ^L
       mailbox: dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0
       date.sent: 2010-01-28 09:38:49 (+0100)
       ^L
       mailbox: dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0
       date.sent: 2010-03-28 18:41:14 (+0200)

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

SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1), doveadm-search(1), doveadm-search-query(7)

Dovecot v2.3                      2015-05-09                  DOVEADM-FETCH(1)