dovecot - Mar 2021 - Why Last-login?

> On 03/03/2021 14:36 Yassine Chaouche <a.chaouche at
algerian-radio.dz> wrote:
> 
>  
> Le 3/3/21 ? 1:33 PM, Yassine Chaouche a ?crit?:
> > What about mbox files ?
> >
> > -- Yassine.
> 
> An alternative would be looking into the dovecot logs, but those are 
> neceassrily time bound.
> So either keep very large amounts of logs, or store just the login info 
> (much shorter) in the
> db.
> 
> -- Yassine.
These days you can also replace last-login with mail-lua script, which can do
lot more than just try to set a dict. But last-login rather useful information
when you are debugging, or removing dormant accounts. And other customer support
incidents.

https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/lua/#id2

Aki

On 03 Mar 2021, at 05:38, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>
wrote:
> These days you can also replace last-login with mail-lua script, which can
do lot more than just try to set a dict. But last-login rather useful
information when you are debugging, or removing dormant accounts. And other
customer support incidents.
Sure, being able to check a last login, approximately, is obviously useful. Bu
clogging it for every login seems? well, it seems to be something people have
been trouble getting to work properly and the information is right there without
having to do anything.

Well, expect not use mbox. <shudder>

Seems that are simpler and less impactful and less troublesome ways to do this.

Anyway, it seems I am not missing anything, so I'll continue on with ls
-lsdtr /path/to/user/maildir/{new,.**/new} if I need to look for defunct
accounts.

-- 
I got fired from the zoo for braiding the snakes.