doveadm-instance - Manage the list of running Dovecot instances
Contents
Arguments
name The value of an instance's instance_name setting.
base_dir
The base directory of a Dovecot instance.
Commands
instancelistdoveadminstancelist
This command lists the seen Dovecot instances.
instanceremovedoveadminstanceremovename | base_dir
This command removes the specified instance.
Description
The doveadminstance commands are used to manage the list of Dovecot instances running on the server. In
most installations there is only one Dovecot instance, but in some cases is may be useful to have more
(e.g. running director proxy and backend in the same server).
Instances are added to the list automatically when Dovecot is started. Each instance is uniquely
identified by its base_dir setting. Instances can be named by setting instance_name in each instance's
dovecot.conf. When an instance is named, it can be accessed easily by giving -iinstance_name command
line parameter for Dovecot binaries (e.g. doveadm).
Name
doveadm-instance - Manage the list of running Dovecot instances
Options
Global doveadm(1) options:
-D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-fformatter
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.
-osetting=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.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
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.htmlSee Also
doveadm(1) Dovecot v2.3 2012-02-16 DOVEADM-INSTANCE(1)
Synopsis
doveadm [-Dv] [-fformatter] instancelistdoveadm [-Dv] instanceremovename | base_dir
