[Dovecot] dovecot imap logging capabilities

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 19:35 +0000, Michael A. Painter Jr. wrote:
> Hello,
>      I have searched but have not found any information on logging
> imap actions.  I want to log when someone uses imap to delete, move,
> copy, etc.  This would greatly help me when someone deletes an email
> and asks where it went.  I get this fairly often from a few users.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Well, since people have been asking this forever, I went and implemented
a mail_log plugin which is now in CVS and in 1.0.rc18 also. I'm not sure
what kinds of things everyone wants to log, but here's a start at least.
Suggestions for how to improve it and what should be optional is
welcome.

A typical move-to-trash + expunge is logged like this:

imap(tss): Info: copy -> Trash: uid=387094,
msgid=<1054290290.19156.426.camel at hurina>
imap(tss): Info: deleted: uid=387094,
msgid=<1054290290.19156.426.camel at hurina>
imap(tss): Info: expunged: uid=387094,
msgid=<1054290290.19156.426.camel at hurina>

It also logs mailbox deletions:

imap(tss): Info: Mailbox deleted: blah

It doesn't log if mails are deleted by something else than Dovecot.
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