DOVEADM-PROCESS-STATUS(1)

💖 DOVEADM-PROCESS-STATUS 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the Dovecot manual, section 1 (that's the user commands girlies). Sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing process status.

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✨ NAME ✨

doveadm-process-status — show information about dovecot processes 👀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] process status [service [...]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

doveadm process status makes a whole lil table for you, one line per process, and every line has all of this:

• name — the name of the process, bestie, its whole identity
• pid — the pid of the process
• available_count — how many more clients can still connect to the process
• total_count — how many clients are connected right now
• idle_start — the timestamp for when the process slid into idle status, and it's 0 if it's still active (she's busy, she's booked)
• last_status_update — the timestamp of the latest update from the process
• last_kill_sent — the timestamp of the latest SIGINT signal sent to the process 😭

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👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

these are the global doveadm(1) options, the ones that apply everywhere:

• -D — turns on verbosity and debug messages. she's chatty now, no cap
• -O — do NOT read any config file, just use defaults. the dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the latest version, but you can override it with -o
• -k — preserve the entire environment for doveadm, not just the import_environment setting. keep the whole vibe intact
• -v — turns on verbosity, including the progress counter
• -i instance-name — if you're running multiple Dovecot instances, pick the config file based on this instance name. peep the instance_name setting for more info
• -c config-file — read configuration from the given config-file. by default it reads the config socket first, then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. you can also point this at the config socket of some instance running a compatible version
• -o setting=value — overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. to override multiple settings, you can pass -o as many times as you want, she's flexible
• -f formatter — specifies the formatter for formatting the output. the supported formatters are:
  • flow — prints each line with key=value pairs.
  • json — prints a JSON array of JSON objects.
  • 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.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• service (optional) — filters the processes according to the specified service or services. by default, ALL dovecot processes are listed. the full roster, everyone's invited 💅

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

  doveadm process status

  name   pid    available_count total_count idle_start last_status_update last_kill_sent
  stats  132400 999             5           0          1685365436         0
  log    132356 971             29          0          1685352909         0
  config 132357 999             6           0          1685365436         0
  anvil  132355 1000            0           1685352908 1685352908         0

look at that table. she's serving. 👑

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🫶 REPORTING BUGS 🫶

found a bug? bestie. report it, including your doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩. info about reporting bugs lives at: ⟨https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html⟩

ngl please include the doveconf -n output, they will literally ask for it 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• doveadm(1)
• doveadm-service-status(1)

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and that's the whole page, periodt ✨ this was the DOVEADM-PROCESS-STATUS(1) manual page, Dovecot source revision f979264, dated April 2026 🌈 go check on your processes, they miss you 💖