[Dovecot] doveadm "-S <socket_path>" option enabled in 2.0.8?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jun 3 15:13:37 EEST 2011


On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:59 -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 01:52:53PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:55 -0500, David Warden wrote:
> > 
> > > But when I try to get my quota on a different local IP using the -S flag to doveadm:
> > > 
> > > doveadm quota get -u warden -S 137.238.2.244:143
> > 
> > The purpose of -S is completely different. It's about connecting to
> > another doveadm instance. There's currently no way to set IP for doveadm
> > queries.
> 
> Just to bump an old thread.  Timo, I think this would be a great feature
> to add.  It would allow people to pull stats (and system health)
> directly out of dovecot rather than having to run agents on the dovecot
> servers to get the info into some other transport like SNMP.

That feature is already there!

service doveadm {
  inet_listener {
    port = 12345
  }
}
doveadm_password = foobar

Now you can use e.g.:

doveadm -S 4.3.2.1:12345 quota get -u foobar

There's no security in there though, the password is sent in plain text.
For more security you could also just use "ssh 4.3.2.1 doveadm .."



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