Command-Line Arguments
- -F Start dovecot as foreground process (otherwise: start as daemon)
- -p Ask for private SSL key password
- -a Dump configuration and exit
- -n Dump all non-default configuration items and exit
-c <config-file> Use <config-file> as path to the configuration instead of /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
- --version Print version and exit
- --build-options Print build options and exit
--exec-mail <protocol> [<section>] Start protocol from section
Synopsis
dovecot [-F] [-c <config-file>] [-p] [--exec-mail <protocol> [<section>]] dovecot -a dovecot -n dovecot --version dovecot --build-options
Caveat
If --exec-mail is used, it must be the last argument on the command line, as <section> is an optional parameter, otherwise if no section is given but another parameter follows, this parameter is used as section.