On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 21:27 +0200, Onno Molenkamp wrote:

Hi,

We're using Dovecot to proxy incoming POP3 and IMAP connections to the right server. We'd like to be able to see what connections are currently open on the proxy servers, without having the parse the log file.

For normal mail processes it's possible to use verbose_proctitle for this purpose, but this setting doesn't work for proxy/login processes. Is it possible to do something similar for proxy processes? Even without displaying the username and IP address, it would be useful to be able to see the difference between normal (idle/active) login processes, and proxy processes.

I guess you're using Linux? This should work if you change Dovecot's sources a bit:

src/lib/process-title.c:

/* NOTE: This really is a horrible hack, I don't recommend using it for anything else than debugging. */ /*#define LINUX_PROCTITLE_HACK*/

Then you'll see "imap-login [IP]" for connected processes.