[Dovecot] Track when user last checked mail

[Chris Wakelin]

Del Stoliker wrote:
> First off I've just got to say thanks.  We just upgraded from UW to Dovecot
> migrating from mbox to maildir.  Wow, what a difference!  Load average used
> to hang around 5.0 during business hours and could get up to 20+ on a bad
> day.  Now we rarely break 1.0!

That's encouraging for those of us planning this change :)

> I'm wondering if there's a way to keep track of the last time a user checked
> their email and whether they checked it using POP or IMAP.  We're trying to
> gather statistics on what protocols our users use and find accounts that
> haven't been checked for a long time.  We used to be able to do some of this
> with the finger command and the user's mbox.  I found a script called
> "mfinger" that works better with Maildir, but it's designed for Courier.

Can't you just grep through the logs? It's not too hard to add extra 
logging if needed; I've currently got SELECTs (i.e. IMAP folder opens) 
logged, for example.

Best Wishes,
Chris

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