dovecot - Dec 2008 - verbose_proctitle not working with post-login

Happy Xmas,

when using a post-login procedure the "verbose_proctitle = yes" has no
effect.

If it is feature
then
     please explain
else
     please fix the bug
fi


--Frank Elsner

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 16:25 +0100, Frank Elsner wrote:
> Happy Xmas,
> 
> when using a post-login procedure the "verbose_proctitle = yes"
has no effect.
> 
> If it is feature
> then
>      please explain
> else
>      please fix the bug
> fi
I suppose you mean you modified mail_executable to point to your own
script? In that case it's really a bug in your script. Or I suppose also
a bug in Dovecot's documentation. Updated:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting

Note the added $* in

exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap $*
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:41:17 -0500 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 16:25 +0100, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > Happy Xmas,
> > 
> > when using a post-login procedure the "verbose_proctitle =
yes" has no effect.
> > 
> > If it is feature
> > then
> >      please explain
> > else
> >      please fix the bug
> > fi
> 
> I suppose you mean you modified mail_executable to point to your own
> script? In that case it's really a bug in your script. Or I suppose
also
> a bug in Dovecot's documentation. Updated:
> 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
> 
> Note the added $* in
> 
> exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap $*
Thanks, now it works as desired.

But ...  In http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
the example for "Last-login tracking" says

"Finally execute the imap/pop3 binary. If you use both, you'll need two
scripts."

Is this a must?

My dovecot.conf currently contains

mail_executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/post-login imap
and
mail_executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/post-login pop3

And "post-login" reads

| #!/bin/bash
| 
| PROTO=$1
| 
| # Set QUOTA_RULE from exim's quota table
|   ...
|   ...
| export QUOTA_RULE
| 
| exec -a "$PROTO [$USER $IP]" /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/$PROTO

This works. 
"ps -ef" shows protocol, username and ip as if calling pop3/imap
directly.


--Frank Elsner