PTDUMP(8)

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version 3.12.4 · 6 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ PTDUMP ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to ptdump from the Cyrus IMAP manual, section 8 💅 this one's a lil program that dumps your PTS (that's the protection database authorization) cache, and honestly? it's giving main character energy for something so small 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ptdump — Cyrus IMAP documentation 🦋

a whole program whose entire job is dumping the current PTS (protection database authorization) cache. no notes. iconic behavior fr fr.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ptdump [-C filename]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one option, zero drama 😌

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does ptdump actually do, you ask? okay so basically:

the ptdump program outputs a list of entries from the PTS DB 📋 literally just dumps them out for you to look at. lowkey satisfying ngl.

and the way it works is, ptdump reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file 👑 unless you specify otherwise by passing -C. so it's like, "i already know where my config lives bestie, unless you tell me different" 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -C config-file — use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5) 🌟 like, "actually bestie, my config is over here." one flag, one purpose, she ate.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/imapd.conf — the default config file, the one she reads unless you hit her with that -C 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • imapd.conf(5) — go read it, it's where all the actual options live, iykyk 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the Cyrus Team, plus Nic Bernstein (Onlight) 💖 shoutout to the legends.

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team 🫶

💀 heads up bestie: this page is for ptdump in the Cyrus IMAP manual, section 8. that's the admin/system-administration section, so you're in the right place if you're the one running the mail server 🙈

ok that's the whole page, you understood all of it, periodt ✨ version 3.12.4, dated Sep 09, 2026 — mwah, go dump that PTS cache, you got this 💅🎀🦋

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