Dovecot have a plugin, called notify

You can use as a base and develop your plugin to write the itens that you want in the database.

in dovecot source, see in src/plugins/notify

2010/11/17 Oliver Berse mail@oliver-berse.de

I'm a newbie at Dovecot. For a company groupware I need a kind of a history function for mails to see which user sent which mail to whom / got which mail from whom. So I have to get the message ID of in- and outgoing mails (and write related data to a mysql database). My first idea was to monitor the log file with a daemon and search for strings like "deliver(x@y.z): 2010-11-15 17:34:56 Info: msgid=AANLkTikoRgUiEg2KgUW2gLmULD4TX-bPst4yhUbuHoEH@a.b". I'm not sure if this is the right approach. Does anyone know a better solution with Dovecot?

thanks, Oliver

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:48:16 +0100 Oliver Berse wrote:

I'm a newbie at Dovecot. For a company groupware I need a kind of a history function for mails to see which user sent which mail to whom / got which mail from whom. So I have to get the message ID of in- and outgoing mails (and write related data to a mysql database). My first idea was to monitor the log file with a daemon and search for strings like "deliver(x@y.z): 2010-11-15 17:34:56 Info: msgid=AANLkTikoRgUiEg2KgUW2gLmULD4TX-bPst4yhUbuHoEH@a.b". I'm not sure if this is the right approach. Does anyone know a better solution with Dovecot?

I guess it should be done by the MTA.

--Frank Elsner