CTL_DELIVER(8)

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version 3.12.4 · 6 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 CTL_DELIVER — the Cyrus IMAP glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ctl_deliver(8), one of the Cyrus IMAP tools, and honestly? she's a niche queen but she serves. she does operations on the duplicate delivery database. that's her whole thing. that's her era. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

ctl_deliver — Cyrus IMAP documentation

Perform operations on the duplicate delivery database. yes that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ctl_deliver [ -C config-file ] -d [ -f filename ]

look at her. minimal. clean. iconic. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so ctl_deliver is the girl you call when you need to do various administrative operations on the duplicate delivery database. that's the vibe. administrative operations. she handles it.

here's the tea though: ctl_deliver reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file — unless you specify otherwise with -C. and the configdirectory option in imapd.conf(5) is what determines the default location of the delivery database. so basically the config is telling her where to find her stuff, and she respects that. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -C config-file — use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5). custom config, custom queen. 💜
  • -d, --dump — dump the contents of the database to standard output in a portable flat-text format. literally just showing you everything, flat-text style, no cap. 🔥
  • *-f *filename, --filename=*filename*** — use the database specified by *filename* instead of the default (configdirectory/deliver.db`). pick your own file, main character energy. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

she's a demo girlie, let her show you:

ctl_deliver -d
Dump configdirectory/deliver.db to STDOUT

dump configdirectory/deliver.db straight to STDOUT. easy. breezy. 💖

ctl_deliver -d -f /tmp/deliverdb.txt
Dump configdirectory/deliver.db to /tmp/deliverdb.txt.

same energy but now it's landing in /tmp/deliverdb.txt. see? told you. 🎀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the friend group:

go say hi, they're all part of the same squad. 🦋

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/imapd.conf
  • <configdirectory>/deliver.db

these are the spots she hangs out at. know them, love them. 💜

💅 AUTHOR 💅

the absolute legends who made this happen:

  • The Cyrus Team
  • Nic Bernstein (Onlight)
  • Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)

giving credit where credit is due, always. 🙈

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

ok that's the whole page bestie, no skips, no shortcuts, every single detail accounted for. iykyk. 💖

version 3.12.4 · dated Sep 09, 2026 · brought to you by Cyrus IMAP 💫 mwah, go forth and dump those databases, you've got this. 🫶✨

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