[Dovecot] greetings and logging

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 08:21 -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
> May  5 07:20:22 postoffice qpopper[8770]: [ID 702911 mail.notice] Stats:
> popuser 91 2173068 116 2543535 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3
> 
> This is telling me that popuser checked mail.  The qpopper removed 91
> messages / 2173068 bytes from the mailbox, leaving 116 messages / 2173068
> bytes.  And the operation was done by the machine at 10.1.2.3

Dovecot should be logging the same things for POP3. In config file:

pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s

Then again, if you're using v0.99.x it doesn't do that.

> I would also hope that attempts to do POP with bad username/password combos
> would be logged w/ at least the username showing up.

Set auth_verbose = yes

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