On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Hugo Monteiro wrote:
Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo wrote:
Hi
I wonder how can I know if a mailbox is not beeing consulted. I mean I
have severals mailboxs but I know some account are not used. I like to
know how to determine wich mail accounts are not beeing used. Is there
any way in dovecot to know the las time a user loged in to dovecot?
Thanks
I'm using dovecot's ability to use "pre execution" scripts.
Basically i have in my imap protocol definition in dovecot.conf an alternate
mail_executable
protocol imap {
...
mail_executable = /usr/local/bin/imap-wrapper.sh
...
}
And that executable has the following:
---- snip ----
#!/bin/sh
# Filesystem based timestamp in user's home directory and protocol used
echo imap > /var/spool/lastlogin/$UID
# Finally execute the imap/pop3 binary. If you use both, you'll need two
scripts.
exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
---- snip ----
I echo the protocol into the file because i have both pop and imap available
to my users and this way i can keep track when was the last time they
accessed their mailbox (ls -l /var/spool/lastlogin/username) and which
protocol they used in that access (cat /var/spool/lastlogin/username).
There are inumerous possibilities of course.
For a summary of recent-past emails about this, see:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-November/027148.html
To make the script in this email work for both POP3 and IMAP:
$ cat /root/dovecot-login.sh
#!/bin/sh
PROTO=`basename $0`
echo $PROTO > /var/spool/lastlogin/$UID
exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/$PROTO
$ ln -s /root/dovecot-login.sh /root/imap
$ ln -s /root/dovecot-login.sh /root/pop3
In dovecot.conf:
protocol imap {
...
mail_executable = /root/imap
...
}
protocol pop3 {
...
mail_executable = /root/pop3
...
}
Best,
Ben
