[Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.10.2012, at 10.45, Micha Krause wrote:

>> ./imap -O -o mail=maildir:/tmp/vmail/domain/user:LAYOUT=fs
> 
> Wow, thats a really cool way to debug/test mailboxes, is this documented somewhere?

No. The -O, -o, -k and some other options should be put into some new global.inc where it gets included to all doveadm/dovecot/doveconf man pages..

> What does -O do, any other interesting options?


All the global settings are:

-O ignores dovecot.conf and just uses the default settings.
-o <key>=<value> can be used multiple times to override any setting
-k preserves environment variables (which can also be used to override settings, e.g. MAIL=foo)
-c <path> changes dovecot.conf path
-i <name> changes to dovecot.conf used by the given instance name
-L logs directly to destination specified by log_path/info_log_path/debug_log_path, bypassing log process (allowing logging to different location than normally, log process always logs only to one location)