Am 02.07.2014 16:24, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: > On 2014-07-02 15:16, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 02.07.2014 16:10, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: >>> On 2014-07-02 15:04, Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> Am 02.07.2014 16:01, schrieb ihab: >>>>> i using roundcube with dovecot, i have a question if there is possible to >>>>> know the number of users that using the mail system (in other word the >>>>> online users) >>>> >>>> no - how do you imagine that? >>>> >>>> * roundcube is a web-application >>>> * HTTP is stateless >>>> * so there are no permanent connections >>> >>> It is possible as Roundcube does have its own session management, which you >>> could maybe hook into >> >> first: why do you respond off-list? >> >> second: >> any of such magic is outside of dovecots scope >> >> and from security point of view you don't want user-login-sessions >> dealing with other users session infos and any smart session-backend >> is doing what it can to prevent from such a breach > > first: I did respond on list as well as directly to you.
with a second message while i was already responding that's even more bad than reply-all on mailing-lists > second: There is nothing wrong with expanding roundcube to print a list of > online based users. This may be just as > easy as printing a certain database table of active sessions. Yes, there are > security concerns but of course these > need to be dealt with properly. which never can be a real number, it's just a random one which maybe or maybe not come close to the reality > third: Yes, it's outside Dovecot's scope, hence the Roundcube sugestion and that's why it is the wrong mailing-list from the first moment on
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