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NAME
       doveadm-force-resync - Repair broken mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -A mailbox
       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -F file mailbox
       doveadm  [GLOBAL  OPTIONS]  force-resync  [-S socket_path] --no-userdb-
       lookup mailbox
       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] force-resync [-S socket_path] -u user mailbox
DESCRIPTION
       Under certain circumstances it may happen, that dovecot(1) is unable to
       automatically solve problems with mailboxes. In such situations the
GLOBAL OPTIONS
       Global doveadm(1)
       -D
           Enables verbosity and debug messages.
       -O
           Do  not  read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_stor-
           age_version setting defaults to the  latest  version,  but  can  be
           overridden with
       -k
           Preserve  entire  environment for doveadm, not just import_environ-
           ment setting.
       -v
           Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
       -i instance-name
           If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config  file  based
           on this instance name.
           See instance_name setting for more information.
       -c config-file
           Read  configuration from the given config-file. By default it first
           reads config socket, and  then  falls  back  to  /etc/dovecot/dove-
           cot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance
           running compatible version.
       -o setting=value
           Overrides the configuration setting from  /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
           and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override mul-
           tiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.
OPTIONS
       -A
           If the -A option is present, the command will be performed for  all
           users.  Using  this  option  in  combination with system users from
           userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it  contains
           also  users  with  a  lower  UID  than  the one configured with the
           first_valid_uid setting.
           When  the  SQL  userdb  module  is  used,  make   sure   that   the
           userdb_sql_iterate_query setting setting matches your database lay-
           out.
           When using the LDAP userdb module, make sure that the userdb_fields
           setting  and userdb_ldap_iterate_fields setting settings match your
           LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be unable  to  iterate  over
           all users.
       -F file
           Execute  the command for all the users in the file. This is similar
           to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of users from the
           userdb,  they  are  read from the given file. The file contains one
           username per line.
       --no-userdb-lookup
           Do not perform userdb lookup. Use the USER environment variable  to
           specify the username.
       -S socket_path
           The  option's  argument  is either an absolute path to a local UNIX
           domain socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in order  to
           connect a remote host via a TCP socket.
           This  allows  an  administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands
           through the given socket.
       -u user/mask
           Run the command only for the given user. It's also possible to  use
           '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
ARGUMENTS
       mailbox
           The name of the mailbox to fix. With mdbox all of the mailboxes are
           fixed, so you can use for example INBOX as the name.
EXAMPLE
       Fix bob's INBOX:
         doveadm force-resync -u bob INBOX
REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing  List
       <dovecot AT dovecot.org>.  Information  about  reporting bugs is available
       at: https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)
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