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 /usr/local/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.
-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 iterate_query setting in /usr/local/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 /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.
-F file: Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is similar 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 environment 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, enclose 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 delivered 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 current 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 terminators.
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