[Dovecot] rawlog adjustment

Thomas G. Lau thomas.lau at ntt.com.hk
Wed Sep 2 10:10:48 EEST 2009


Dear Charles,

try it with pop3 server, it does not work.



Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 9/1/2009 7:03 AM, Thomas G. Lau wrote:
>   
>>>> We would like to use rawlog to make sure when does user delete email,
>>>> can we filter particular command that user sent to dovecot server
>>>> instead of log the whole email content as well? how would you all
>>>> provide prove to client that mail lost is not caused by your server?
>>>>         
>
>   
>>> You don't want rawlog for this (thats for troubleshooting), you want
>>> mail_log:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog
>>>       
>
>   
>> maillog does not provide when does client execute delete command, so
>> it does not work.
>>     
>
> I don't use it, but are you sure/have you tested it?
>
> >From the referenced page:
>
> "Messages' UID and Message-ID header is logged for each action. Here's
> an example:
>
> imap(user): copy -> Trash: uid=908, msgid=<123.foo at bar>
> imap(user): deleted: uid=908, msgid=<123.foo at bar>
> imap(user): expunged: uid=908, msgid=<123.foo at bar>"
>
> It doesn't show it, but I'm fairly certain the log lines *do* include a
> date/time stamp.
>
>   


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