dovecot - Mar 2012 - Question about folder creation/delete and logging

Hello

 We are working in a web based restore system for our Dovecot users. In this web
form a user must log-in and after successful login can estore a deleted folder
from date X. We will release it under the GPL. I have a couple of questions:

 - Is there any way of Dovecot logging to write when a folder is deleted or
created? We do not want to increase too much our "normal" logging
level. We use Dovecot 2.0.18+mdbox+zlib
 - Does anybody know of any other project to create an easy-restore for Dovecot?

 Regards

 Maria

Hi,

perhaps the mail_log plugin is what you need.

Regards
Urban

On 12.03.2012 12:56, Maria Arrea wrote:
> Hello
>
>   We are working in a web based restore system for our Dovecot users. In
this web form a user must log-in and after successful login can estore a deleted
folder from date X. We will release it under the GPL. I have a couple of
questions:
>
>   - Is there any way of Dovecot logging to write when a folder is deleted
or created? We do not want to increase too much our "normal" logging
level. We use Dovecot 2.0.18+mdbox+zlib
>   - Does anybody know of any other project to create an easy-restore for
Dovecot?
>
>   Regards
>
>   Maria
>

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 12:56 +0100, Maria Arrea wrote:
> 
>  - Is there any way of Dovecot logging to write when a folder is
> deleted or created? We do not want to increase too much our
"normal"
> logging level. We use Dovecot 2.0.18+mdbox+zlib
You can configure mail_log plugin to only log mailbox creations and
deletions. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog
>  - Does anybody know of any other project to create an easy-restore
> for Dovecot?
I guess you're using "doveadm import"? So other than that,
haven't heard
of any.

mail_log plugin is just what we need, thank you for your support.

 Yes, we are using bacula+doveadm import for this project.

 If you are interested, we have in production an home-brew message-tracking
system for our end-users. We parse qmail / postfix / clamav / spamassassin/
dovecot / sieve logs and insert them in a mysql database, and a logged user in
our webapp can see what happened with her mails (sent mails or messages waiting
for arrival). Affero GPL software, of course.

 Some screenshots (Spanish only, sorry) here:

 https://gestionproyectos.us.es/attachments/download/321/Seguimiento_de_mensajes___Vista_detalla_de_mensaje_1331558163319.png
 https://gestionproyectos.us.es/attachments/download/145/Captura_de_pantalla_2011-06-05_a_las_14.03.42.png
 https://gestionproyectos.us.es/attachments/download/156/Seguimiento_de_mensajes___Administraci%C3%B3n_1308042340487.png



 URL of the project (Seguimiento, spanish word for "tracking"):

 https://gestionproyectos.us.es/projects/seguimiento


 Regards

 Maria


----- Original Message -----
From: Timo Sirainen
Sent: 03/12/12 02:04 PM
To: Maria Arrea
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Question about folder creation/delete and logging

 On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 12:56 +0100, Maria Arrea wrote: > > - Is there any
way of Dovecot logging to write when a folder is > deleted or created? We do
not want to increase too much our "normal" > logging level. We use
Dovecot 2.0.18+mdbox+zlib You can configure mail_log plugin to only log mailbox
creations and deletions. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog > - Does
anybody know of any other project to create an easy-restore > for Dovecot? I
guess you're using "doveadm import"? So other than that,
haven't heard of any.