Get a list of currently active IMAP connections?

[Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.)]

I use ps : (greping by imap & idle)

# ps -axww | grep imap | grep IDLE

thant and split() in python



  8606  -  S         0:08.78 imap: [keith at elirpa.com 54.242.98.60 IDLE] 
(imap)
12234  -  I         0:01.00 imap: [reception at clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 
IDLE] (imap)
20668  -  S         0:02.01 imap: [paul at scom.ca 216.58.25.131 IDLE] (imap)
23219  -  I         0:00.33 imap: [clancy at clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 
IDLE] (imap)
26761  -  S         0:00.52 imap: [ed.hanna at ekst.ca 204.237.91.165 IDLE] 
(imap)
26785  -  I         0:00.87 imap: [ed at scom.ca 204.237.91.165 IDLE] (imap)
26787  -  I         0:00.80 imap: [ed.hanna at dssmgmt.com 204.237.91.165 
IDLE] (imap)
27378  -  S         0:00.42 imap: [ed at scom.ca 204.237.91.165 IDLE] (imap)
31404  -  S         0:03.90 imap: [paul at scom.ca 216.58.25.131 IDLE] (imap)
32494  -  S         0:00.13 imap: [installers at tomkudla.ca 167.94.196.10 
IDLE] (imap)
32497  -  S         0:00.13 imap: [installers at tomkudla.ca 167.94.196.10 
IDLE] (imap)
33809  -  I         0:00.28 imap: [clancy at clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 
IDLE] (imap)
36321  -  I         0:00.21 imap: [clancy at clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 
IDLE] (imap)
39188  -  I         0:00.39 imap: [clancy at clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 
IDLE] (imap)
42706  -  S         0:00.45 imap: [ed at scom.ca 204.237.91.165 IDLE] (imap)
46356  -  S         0:02.98 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)
46422  -  S         0:01.32 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)
46424  -  S         0:01.27 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)
50756  -  S         0:01.36 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)
58656  -  I         0:00.07 imap: [ditchburn at clancyca.com 216.58.50.30 
IDLE] (imap)
63886  -  S         0:00.70 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)
68246  -  I         0:00.08 imap: [li at clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 IDLE] 
(imap)
74719  -  I         0:00.03 imap: [dan at elirpa.com 142.183.30.44 IDLE] (imap)
76580  -  I         0:00.02 imap: [info at willsagriquipandfencing.ca 
173.32.244.194 IDLE] (imap)
76584  -  I         0:00.02 imap: [howard at willsagriquipandfencing.ca 
173.32.244.194 IDLE] (imap)
77567  -  S         0:00.04 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)
77569  -  I         0:00.03 imap: [rcooke at tnky.ca 198.91.141.141 IDLE] 
(imap)






Happy Friday !!!
Thanks - paul

Paul Kudla


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On 8/18/2022 6:28 PM, J Doe wrote:
> 
> On 2022-08-16 16:46, Antonio Leding wrote:
>> At the risk of being pedestrian, I just use something like |sudo 
>> netstat -an | grep ‘:[ IMAP_PORT ]’|
>>
>> I’m pretty sure you thought of this but still, thought I would toss it 
>> out…
>>
> 
> Hi Antonio and Jaroslaw,
> 
> I don't think the second solution is pedestrian; I think it's cool that 
> people have come up with different solutions for the same problem!
> 
> I am thinking that this may not be the solution that Jaroslaw is looking 
> for, as this also requires spawning a process to run netstat and then 
> capturing the results.  The socket approach avoids an additional process.
> 
> - J
>