[Dovecot] Mail history function?

[Jakob Curdes]

>   My first idea was to
> monitor the log file with a daemon and search for strings like
> "deliver(x at y.z): 2010-11-15 17:34:56 Info:
> msgid=<AANLkTikoRgUiEg2KgUW2gLmULD4TX-bPst4yhUbuHoEH at a.b>". I'm not sure
> if this is the right approach. Does anyone know a better solution with
Configure your MTA to log into an SQL database. Then you can pull 
everything you want from there
The IMAP server is the wrong place for that as you would exclude mails 
that get discarded by the MTA, e.g. due to ingress or spam detection 
rules or because of a misconfigured alias.

HTH,
Jakob Curdes