A user's last access time
Dear Colleagues,
Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her E-mail via IMAP or POP3?
I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX.
This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient.
-- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
On 19. Oct 2020, at 18.54, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her E-mail via IMAP or POP3?
I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX.
This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient.
Not directly but you might want to take a look at this: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/lastlogin_plugin/
Sami
Sami Ketola wrote:
On 19. Oct 2020, at 18.54, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her E-mail via IMAP or POP3?
I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX.
This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient.
Not directly but you might want to take a look at this: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/lastlogin_plugin/
Hello Sami,
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.
-- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
Am Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:31:16 +0700 schrieb Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>:
Hello Sami,
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.
you could touch a file in the postlogin script
On 20.10.2020 9.30, Matthias Lay wrote:
Am Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:31:16 +0700 schrieb Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>:
Hello Sami,
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.
you could touch a file in the postlogin script
You can use lastlogin plugin to write to a file too. It's not just database.
plugin {
last_login_dict = file:/somewhere/lastlogin
}
Aki
Aki Tuomi wrote:
On 20.10.2020 9.30, Matthias Lay wrote:
Am Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:31:16 +0700 schrieb Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>:
Hello Sami,
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.
you could touch a file in the postlogin script
You can use lastlogin plugin to write to a file too. It's not just database.
plugin {
last_login_dict = file:/somewhere/lastlogin
}
Thanks, works this way.
The contents of the lastlogin text file looks odd, but there is nothing AWK cannot transform :-)
-- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
On 20 Oct 2020, at 00:33, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:
plugin {
last_login_dict = file:/somewhere/lastlogin
}
It may be worth nothing that this can be specified as ~/.lastlogin As well as something along the liens of /usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/.lastlogin
Dovecot is smart enough to do the expansion per user in the ~
The contents of the file are simply the epoch times stamp of the last login and the string
"shared/last-login/%u"
As far as I can tell, though I suppose %u may vary by config?
(It makes much more sense to me to put this information into the user database than into a text file, but that's neither here nor there).
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@lbutlr wrote:
On 20 Oct 2020, at 00:33, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:
plugin {
last_login_dict = file:/somewhere/lastlogin
}
It may be worth nothing that this can be specified as ~/.lastlogin As well as something along the liens of /usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/.lastlogin
Dovecot is smart enough to do the expansion per user in the ~
Thanks for the hint.
-- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
On 20/10/2020 05:31, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Sami Ketola wrote:
On 19. Oct 2020, at 18.54, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her E-mail via IMAP or POP3?
I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX.
This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient. Not directly but you might want to take a look at this: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/lastlogin_plugin/
Hello Sami,
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.
I think you should be able to use sqlite just as well as MySQL.
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Dictionary
Good luck! Reio
On 20. Oct 2020, at 5.31, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
Sami Ketola wrote:
On 19. Oct 2020, at 18.54, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her E-mail via IMAP or POP3?
I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX.
This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient.
Not directly but you might want to take a look at this: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/lastlogin_plugin/
Hello Sami,
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.
As you have already been told dict can be a file too. There just performance limits in writing to file dict.
Sami
@lbutlr wrote:
On 19 Oct 2020, at 20:31, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. …
Even a local sqlite database would do.
What?
This meant that an external DMBS/daemon process (MySQL, Redis etc) was not desirable, but any on-disk format Dovecot can save the data in was fine with me. The sqlite format too.
-- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
On 20 Oct 2020, at 20:08, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
@lbutlr wrote:
On 19 Oct 2020, at 20:31, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. …
Even a local sqlite database would do.
What?
This meant that an external DMBS/daemon process (MySQL, Redis etc) was not desirable, but any on-disk format Dovecot can save the data in was fine with me. The sqlite format too.
How is SQLite different from MySQL? I have both on my system. They are both on-disk database files.
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On 21.10.20 18:27, @lbutlr wrote:
How is SQLite different from MySQL? I have both on my system. They are both on-disk database files.
sqlite is accessed through a library, data is stored in a file. whereas mysql needs a running service/daemon (which takes care of storing the data into files)
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Matthias Lay
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