[Dovecot] mailbox not acceced

[Hugo Monteiro]

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.

Regards,

Hugo Monteiro.

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