dovecot - Nov 2005 - How to log POP3 events

Hello all,

Thanks for your help getting me started.  I have Dovecot running now.

When I troubleshoot customer email problems, I need to be able to see the
number of emails they popped.

In /var/log/maillog, Dovecot just tells me that they authenticated, but not
what happened after they authenticated.  With pop3d, I saw how many emails
they popped.  Can I set that in Dovecot?  I checked the documentation and
couldn't find anything.  I also turned on the "auth_verbose = yes"
and
"auth_debug = yes" -- but as the name implies, I only got more
authentication info.  Nothing about files tranferred.

Thanks,

Cliff

Cliff Hayes wrote:
> With pop3d, I saw how many emails they popped.  Can I set that in Dovecot?
 > I checked the documentation and couldn't find anything.

Yes, there's some very detailed POP3 logging options, but you need the 
Dovecot-1.0 series (Dovecot-1.0-alpha4 is the latest, and is pretty stable).

Mind you, I'd quite like the same sort of logging for IMAP (I may have a 
go at a patch sometime, if Timo doesn't beat me to it!).

Chris

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