Doveadm-Proxy

Name ☜

doveadm-proxy - Handle Dovecot proxy connections

Synopsis ☜

doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] proxy command [OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS]

Description ☜

The doveadm proxy commands are used to list or kick active Dovecot proxy connections.

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 /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 table output formatter.

Command specific options:

-a ipc_socket_path

This option is used to specify an alternative socket. The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX domain socket.

By default doveadm(1) will use the socket /var/run/dovecot/ipc. The socket may be located in another directory, when the default base_dir setting was overridden in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.

Arguments ☜

user

Is a user's login name. Depending on the configuration, a login name may be for example jane or john@example.com. It's also possible to use "*" and "?" wildcards (e.g. *@example.org).

Commands ☜

Proxy Kick ☜

doveadm proxy kick [-a ipc_socket_path] [-f passdb_field] [-h host_list | user]

Kick all the connections being proxied for the given user. or for the given backend hosts_list.

Proxy List ☜

doveadm proxy list [-a ipc_socket_path]

List all the users currently being proxied.

Example ☜

List all currently active proxy connections:

doveadm proxy list
username                    proto src ip          dest ip     port
jane@example.net            imap  192.168.0.100   192.168.0.5 143

See Also ☜

doveadm(1)

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