[Dovecot] Possible to log IMAP connections to MySQL Table?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Dec 24, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Corey Shaw wrote:

> I've started going down the path of the mail_executable script, but  
> I've run into a snag.  I have a script that works fine and inserts  
> rows into the database as wanted, but whenever I restart the Dovecot  
> service it inserts a row into the database with the USER variable  
> set to "dump-capability" using the IMAP mail_executable.  This  
> doesn't happen with the pop3 mail_executable.
>
>
> Below is my configuration for Dovecot 1.1.7.  I'm assuming that the  
> mail_executable(default) value is being run whenever Dovecot  
> restarts.  How do I prevent this from happening?  Can I set the  
> default to an empty string?

How about you just add a if ! [ $USER = dump-capability ]; then do  
your stuff; fi

You could prevent Dovecot from calling it by manually setting  
imap_capability setting, but I don't really recommend it since you'll  
probably forget to update it when upgrading to a new Dovecot version..