[Dovecot] Imap logout message on Dovecot restart

[RutgerM]

> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:50 +0100, RutgerM wrote:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> unset LOG_TO_MASTER
>> export USE_SYSLOG=1
>> exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
>>
>> But this logs the user that runs the script into the imap server and
>> when
>> I terminate this terminal I get a "Disconnected" message for the local
>> linux user, which I don't need of course.
>
> I don't really understand what you mean by this. It should log
> everything the exact same way, except directly to syslog.

This is not happening indeed. I get a IMAP screen where I can do LIST
commands and so on. This happens when I execute imap.


>> Is there a way to get to what I want ? I want to log my IMAP statics for
>> every day and I need to "disconnect" my imap clients for it in some way
>> to
>> receive the Disconnected message and count from there.
>
> Actually I just realized there is a simple way:
>
> killall imap
>

This solution also works great indeed.

But I still would like to know why the exec way doesn't work.