Post login scripts environment

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Sun Apr 7 18:55:15 EEST 2019


> On 7 April 2019 18:45 André Rodier via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Sun, 2019-04-07 at 17:49 +0300, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
> > > On 7 April 2019 17:26 André Rodier via dovecot < dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dear Dovecot users,
> > > 
> > > I am running Dovecot 2.2.27 on Debian Stretch, no issue so far.
> > > 
> > > I wonder if there is a way to pass the remote IP address, in an
> > > environment variable, in the post login script.
> > > 
> > > My Post login scripts are working well, except that when the server is
> > > accessed through a webmail (Roundcube or SOGo), the remote IP address
> > > is systematically 127.0.0.1.
> > > 
> > > The other question I have is, is it possible to pass the user agent of
> > > the email client used to access the server? I know this can be easily
> > > forged, but I would like to log it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your insight.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > André Rodier
> > 
> > You can use IMAP ID command to pass e.g. x-originating-ip. See https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/imap-login/imap-login-cmd-id.c
> > ---
> > Aki Tuomi
> 
> Thanks, Aki,
> 
> I had a look on the version, I don't think this is implemented in
> 2.2.27, it it seems this file has been added in 2.3.
> 
> I may have to use a more recent version of Dovecot, but I think this is
> exactly what I was looking for, for the IP address.
> 
> Regarding the original user agent (e.g. Evolution, Thunderbird, etc.),
> I suppose I can use the same approach?
> 
> Thanks again for your help.
> 
> André
> 

This feature is supported since 1.2 alpha.

Aki


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