CTL_DELIVER(8)

💖 CTL_DELIVER — the Cyrus IMAP girlie's guide ✨

okay so bestie, this is ctl_deliver(8) from Cyrus IMAP, and she's here to help you do operations on the duplicate delivery database. yep. that one. the dupe db. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ctl_deliver — Cyrus IMAP documentation

perform operations on the duplicate delivery database ✨ (yes that's literally her whole job, and she ate)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so ctl_deliver is the girl who handles all your various administrative operations on the duplicate delivery database. she's giving admin energy, she's giving housekeeping, she's iconic 💖

by default, ctl_deliver reads her config options straight out of the imapd.conf(5) file — unless you tell her otherwise with -C. and lowkey important: the configdirectory option in imapd.conf(5) is what determines the default location of the delivery database. so like, that's the vibe check on where things live ✨

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -C config-file — use the config file config-file instead of the default imapd.conf(5). you're picking the outfit, she's wearing it 💅
• -d, --dump — dump the contents of the database to standard output, in a portable flat-text format. it's giving show-and-tell, no cap 🎀
• -f filename, --filename=filename — use the database specified by filename instead of the default (configdirectory/deliver.db). custom db? obsessed. 🔥

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

she loves a demo, so here you go:

ctl_deliver -d
Dump configdirectory/deliver.db to STDOUT

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

literally just dumping databases left and right, main character energy fr fr 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

imapd.conf(5), master(8)

(go read those too bestie, iykyk)

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🍓 FILES 🍓

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

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

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

the icons who made her 🫶

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

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ngl bestie, that configdirectory/deliver.db path is load-bearing — if your configdirectory is different, that's where your db is, periodt.

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okay that's the whole page 💖 this was version 3.12.3, dated Jul 15, 2026, brought to you by the Cyrus IMAP girlies — mwah, go dump a database responsibly 🎀✨🦋