[Dovecot] "pop before smtp" dovecot.conf

Lorens dovecot.fdop at tagged.lorens.org
Wed Dec 7 22:25:20 EET 2005


On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:32:21PM -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote:
> Bonjour Lorens,
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:57:06AM -0500, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote:
> > > Bonjour a Tous,
> > > 
> > > 	I know there is Perl script to scan maillog file and 
> > > 	extract information from collected data, but this
> > > 	seem to me 'a kind of the very last option'....
> > > 	
> > > 	May be the trick can be achieved using 'executable' function?
> > 
> > Have you checked the Wiki?
> > 
> > 	http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/PopBSMTPAndDovecot
> 
> 	Yes, seen it (it was the "last option"), I
> 	am a little bit reluctant to have a daemon using its
> 	time to scan maillog file and extract information which 
> 	are otherwise already available within dovecot.

Yes. I dislike the multimegabyte perl daemon doing a tail on log
files too. That is why I indicated that

> > There's a script that's used for SQL that whould be trivial to
> > do whatever you like with.

That script could be just

	#!/bin/sh
	echo $IP `date` >> /var/log/dovecot


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