[Dovecot] pop/imap session

[Tomasz Suchodolski]

2008/5/8 Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com>:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > Ok, but there are errors that are not logged(i assume that debug mode is
> > > disabled)
> > > Lets take, for example a bug when dovecot freezes and telneting
> > > directly to
> > > the port shows: Waiting for authentication process to respond...
> > >
> > > This could be reported to admin by mail and is faster than reading
> > > logs.
> > >
> >
> > Shouldn't you rather figure out why it's freezing and fix that? It's not
> > normal.
> >
> >
> But if you worry about that kind of thing then monit is a good tool.  It
> can be configured to watch memory usage, number of processes, check a port,
> then take action and do something like alert an admin and reboot the
> service, etc
>
>
>
Nagios or bash script could also be used but that's not the point.
Generally it would be nice if dovecot could report errors  internally like
postfix and  it's notify_classes.
This is of course a wish :)

Regards