[Dovecot] Traffic Accounting

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 24.09.2012 18:32, schrieb M. Naumann:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to find out how to do traffic accounting with Dovecot 2.x,
> preferrably v2.0.9, preferrably on CentOS 6.
> 
> I've previously asked on IRC, but there was little feedback, and my
> understanding is now this list is the preferred media for such
> inquiries. If I recall correctly, some weeks ago I was told that traffic
> accounting is not officially supported on Dovecot 2, but that there
> could still be ways to get it to work, but no details were provided.
> 
> I can think of the following approaches:
> 
> * rawlog, preferrably piped (if that's possible?) into something like wc
> to prevent privacy issues and to reduce the I/O overhead
> 
> * maildrop filtering in front of dovecot LDA (for mail inbound to mail
> storage)
> 
> * sieve filtering
> 
> Unfortunately I have little experience with either so far, so it's hard
> to make a good choice. I would appreciate hints on these approaches, and
> on any other approaches you can think of, as well as any related
> documentation / how-to you could point me to.
> 
> While I'm subscribed to the list (for mail authentication purposes),
> I've disabled receiving any e-mail form the list, so please CC me on any
> replies.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Moritz
> 

perhaps this helps

on the 2.1.x tree there is a stats plugin
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics

and/or use syslog analysers etc
-- 
Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer