On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:35 -0500, Charles Gregory wrote: The dovecot.index.log isn't modified unless something has actually changed.
Which I am hoping is a true statement if someone reads mail. (In this case, things like 'new status' indicators and such).
Alpine actually updates the message with each read. In particular, it updates the "X-IMAP:" line..... Huh? What does it write there? It should update it only when there have been new messages, not on every read..
I stand corrected. I just tested it, and it's *not* updating the 'X-IMAP:' line all the time. The only thing it does consistently is re-write that internal message with a new 'From ... (date)' line..... (sigh)
....which still leaves me trying to figure the best method of determining when a user has been *reading* the mailbox..... I would really rather NOT be reading through mail logs to find a login....
Hmmmm. Can I 'trick up' dovecot to generate an extra log record to a *sepearate* file when someone logs-in? I suppose I could just have dovecot log to its own separate log file......
Thanks for the responses....
- Charles