A user's last access time

Sami Ketola sami at ketola.io
Tue Oct 20 11:39:52 EEST 2020



> On 20. Oct 2020, at 5.31, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
> 
> Sami Ketola wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 19. Oct 2020, at 18.54, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>> 
>>> Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of
>>> modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her
>>> E-mail via IMAP or POP3?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail
>>> account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX.
>>> 
>>> This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is
>>> touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient.
>> 
>> Not directly but you might want to take a look at this: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/lastlogin_plugin/
> 
> Hello Sami,
> 
> I have seen this but I do not want this information in a database. If
> you know how to make the lastlogin_plugin write to a local file, that
> would be very helpful. Even a local sqlite database would do.
> 
> The documentation for the plugin seems very scarce.

As you have already been told dict can be a file too. There just performance limits in writing to file dict.

Sami

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