[Dovecot] Question about log entries
Hello,
What does this information mean and how is it relevant? I cannot find documentation other than a brief description in dovecot.conf:
%t - number of TOP commands %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command %r - number of RETR commands %b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command
Thanks in advance,
Cliff
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:56 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote:
Hello,
What does this information mean and how is it relevant? I cannot find documentation other than a brief description in dovecot.conf:
%t - number of TOP commands %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command
POP3's TOP command retrieves only message headers. I don't think clients use it much (if ever).
%r - number of RETR commands %b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command
RETR commands actually download the mail. So these show how many times a client downloaded message, and how many bytes of message data was sent to client as a result of that.
They're statistics. You either care about those numbers or you don't.
On 11:59 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
POP3's TOP command retrieves only message headers. I don't think clients use it much (if ever).
Actually, my Windows client of choice for scanning my incoming mail[1] is a POP3 client that emulates some IMAP functionality and uses TOP extensively. In fact, it never downloads a message body unless specifically requested.
[1] Popcorn <http://www.ultrafunk.com/popcorn/>
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On 29.12.2009 21:10, Timo Sirainen wrote:
What does this information mean and how is it relevant? I cannot find documentation other than a brief description in dovecot.conf:
%t - number of TOP commands %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command POP3's TOP command retrieves only message headers.
Um, no, since it's "TOP <msgno> <bodylines>", you can retrieve any number of lines from the message's body.
I don't think clients use it much (if ever).
Fetchmail uses "TOP %d 99999999" to get some obscure pseudo-IMAP behaviour. I don't know about real clients, though. One would think that there should be clients that use it for message-preview (and download-on-demand).
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Cliff Hayes
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Jakob Hirsch
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Mark Sapiro
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Timo Sirainen