DOVEADM-SERVICE-STOP(1)             Dovecot            DOVEADM-SERVICE-STOP(1)

NAME
       doveadm-service-stop - Stop Dovecot Services

SYNOPSIS
       doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] service stop service [service [...]]

DESCRIPTION
       doveadm service stop stops the listed Dovecot service processes.

GLOBAL OPTIONS
       Global doveadm(1)

       -D

           Enables verbosity and debug messages.



       -O

           Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The
           dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the latest version, but
           can be overridden with



       -k

           Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just
           import_environment 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/dovecot.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
           multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.



       -f formatter

           Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. 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.




ARGUMENTS
       service

           The list of services to stop.



EXAMPLES
         $ doveadm service stop stats

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
       <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available
       at: https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)

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