[Dovecot] greetings and logging

Edward Chase echase at studentweb.providence.edu
Fri May 5 18:26:24 EEST 2006


Ah...

I'll wait for CentOS to include a newer version in the distro.

#rpm -qa | grep -i dovecot
dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1

Thanks.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org 
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:26 AM
> To: Edward Chase
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: RE: [Dovecot] greetings and logging
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 08:21 -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
> > May  5 07:20:22 postoffice qpopper[8770]: [ID 702911 
> mail.notice] Stats:
> > popuser 91 2173068 116 2543535 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3
> > 
> > This is telling me that popuser checked mail.  The qpopper 
> removed 91
> > messages / 2173068 bytes from the mailbox, leaving 116 
> messages / 2173068
> > bytes.  And the operation was done by the machine at 10.1.2.3
> 
> Dovecot should be logging the same things for POP3. In config file:
> 
> pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
> 
> Then again, if you're using v0.99.x it doesn't do that.
> 
> > I would also hope that attempts to do POP with bad 
> username/password combos
> > would be logged w/ at least the username showing up.
> 
> Set auth_verbose = yes
> 
> 



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