Hi Paul,

I already use the last_login field for stastisques but it can't tell me
how many users are on Pop3 or Imap.

For me IMAP equals Nirvana  (Webmail Horde/Imp)
   and Pop3 equals Pain     (outlook)

"Much Pain for 15 technicians not under my supervision".

In a school bord with 5000 computers and 40,000 students and
4,000 teachers a Webmail is a no brainer its there and your get
you mail from any where in the World.

I think sometime my boss and others "are out of it or whatever"
They have 15 technicians configuring outlook on hundres of computers
just because people ask for it.

So I want to track the use of POP3 and IMAP.

I find that simple mysql queries is the way to go.

I find that login to syslog...etc is to much of a overhead.

Thanks

Selon Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Jacques Beaudoin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sometime I wish that I could gather some statistiques on
> > how many users are on Pop3 or Imap.
> >
> > In a future release of dbmail could 2 fields be added to the dbmail_user 
> > table
> >
> > EX: pop3_timestamp and imap_timestamp
>
> Business case? What do you want to track? There is a last_login field.
>
> Or are you thinking about tracking the state of the process pool, like
> apache's scoreboard?
>
> i.e. like:
>
> child_state           one of [IDLE,CONNECTED,RUNNING,WAITING, ... ]
> child_command         the running POP3/IMAP/TIMSIEVED command
> user_id                       login of connected user
> user_bandwidth                accumulated data flow accounting per client_id
> user_connected_since  start of current connection
>
> this could then be translated into well structured logging aimed at (or
> at least usuable as) accountability.
>
> This data should IMO not end up in the database, or rather not in the
> database as first choice of destination. Lets first create simple and
> straightforward textfile logging, or syslog, or whatever.
>
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