doveadm -D and -v options

Gedalya gedalya at gedalya.net
Thu Apr 30 07:17:16 UTC 2015


On 04/30/2015 02:51 AM, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
> According to doveadm-dsync man page the above two options are valid, 
> but they are rejected when used:
>
> tornado # doveadm backup -v -u testuser remote:pi.me.name:4814
> backup: invalid option -- 'v'
> doveadm backup [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [-fPRU] [-l <secs>] 
> [-r <rawlog path>] [-m <mailbox>] [-g <mailbox_guid>] [-n <namespace> 
> | -N] [-x <exclude>] [-s <state>] -d|<dest>
> tornado #
> tornado # doveadm backup -D -u testuser remote:pi.me.name:4814
> backup: invalid option -- 'D'
> doveadm backup [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [-fPRU] [-l <secs>] 
> [-r <rawlog path>] [-m <mailbox>] [-g <mailbox_guid>] [-n <namespace> 
> | -N] [-x <exclude>] [-s <state>] -d|<dest>
> tornado #
>
> This is with 2.2.16 (latest -hg).   Looks to me like either a bug, or 
> the documentation (man doveadm-sync) is incorrect...?
>
> Reuben

The man page appears to be wrong. [-Dv] belongs right after doveadm, 
before [sync|backup]

doveadm -v backup -u testuser remote:pi.me.name:4814




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