On 7.7.2010, at 9.59, Sandu cucereanu wrote: > I want to know if there is any possibility to log the subjects of the > messages downloaded from ther server. We use dovecot 1.0.15 with POP3S and > IMAP and we want to keep a trace of the reading of messages by the users of > our mail server (who, when and what are the subjects of the e-mail messages > read) because some users complain that they did not read some messages but in > the logs of the server (maillog files( those messages appear to be delivered > to their inboxes.
Not with v1.0, but I think with v1.2 or later you could use http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog : plugin { mail_log_events = flag_change mail_log_fields = subject } Then as long as you have pop3_no_flag_updates=no (default) it should log a line for every RETR that is done. (Not tested, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.) The main problem is that with IMAP this gets logged every time a flag changes. Also with IMAP there's really no reliable way to say if a message has been read/downloaded. Clients typically download messages headers, but it's possible to delete a message without reading it. Maybe the mail_log plugin would be better used as it was originally intended? So that it would log whenever messages are deleted?
