More Examples with DOVEADM

Here is just an unsorted list of useful doveadm commands that could be useful.

doveadm quota¶

The quota get and quota recalc¹ commands are used to display or recalculate the current user's quota usage. The reported values are in kilobytes.

To list the current quota status for a user / mailbox, do:

doveadm quota get -u 'mailbox@example.org'

To list the quota storage value for all users, do:

doveadm quota get -A |grep "STORAGE"

Recalculate a single user's quota usage:

doveadm quota recalc -u 'mailbox@example.org'

doveadm search¶

The doveadm search² command is used to find messages matching your query. It can return the username, mailbox-GUID / -UID and message-GUIDs / -UIDs.

To view the number of messages, by user, in their .Trash folder:

doveadm search -A mailbox 'Trash' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c

Show all messages in a user's inbox older then 90 days:

doveadm search -u 'mailbox@example.org' mailbox 'INBOX' savedbefore 90d

Show all messages in any folder that are older then 30 days for mailbox@example.org:

doveadm search -u 'mailbox@example.org' mailbox "*" savedbefore 30d

Last update: 2022-02-02 11:37:12