number of users

[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.07.2014 16:24, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy:
> On 2014-07-02 15:16, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 02.07.2014 16:10, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy:
>>> On 2014-07-02 15:04, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>> Am 02.07.2014 16:01, schrieb ihab:
>>>>> i using roundcube with dovecot, i have a question if there is possible to
>>>>> know the number of users that  using the mail system (in other word  the
>>>>> online users)
>>>>
>>>> no - how do you imagine that?
>>>>
>>>> * roundcube is a web-application
>>>> * HTTP is stateless
>>>> * so there are no permanent connections
>>>
>>> It is possible as Roundcube does have its own session management, which you could maybe hook into
>>
>> first: why do you respond off-list?
>>
>> second:
>> any of such magic is outside of dovecots scope
>>
>> and from security point of view you don't want user-login-sessions
>> dealing with other users session infos and any smart session-backend
>> is doing what it can to prevent from such a breach
> 
> first: I did respond on list as well as directly to you.

with a second message while i was already responding
that's even more bad than reply-all on mailing-lists

> second: There is nothing wrong with expanding roundcube to print a list of online based users. This may be just as
> easy as printing a certain database table of active sessions. Yes, there are security concerns but of course these
> need to be dealt with properly.

which never can be a real number, it's just a random one
which maybe or maybe not come close to the reality

> third: Yes, it's outside Dovecot's scope, hence the Roundcube sugestion

and that's why it is the wrong mailing-list from the first moment on

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