Re: [SM-USERS] User logging and reporting

[Alex <mys...@gm...>]

Hi,

Paul, thanks for the great info as usual. I've got a few programs
processing postfix logs already; perhaps I can also adapt those. I'll
give this a shot and follow up with questions and results.

Best,
Alex

>> I'm using postfix, apache, and courier-imap, and have set up a
>> logformat such that awstats can process it, but it would be good to
>> have more mail stats from postfix or or the auth process from
>> squirrelmail.
>
> There are some good logging options that analyze postfix logs.  If you
> use a SquirrelMail package to log user activity, it's going to affect
> your webmail performance (although perhaps not noticeably), and it's
> ONLY going to log webmail events (if your users use POP/IMAP/SMTP in a
> desktop client, for example, SquirrelMail logging won't help monitor
> those activities).
>
>> What information is currently available, and how would I go about
>> finding the information that isn't currently available already? What
>> is recorded in the mail logs to provide login/logout info, if any? I
>> don't see anything in the apache logs indicating 'success' login or
>> failure, or otherwise...
>
> SquirrelMail does not do any logging by default.  But your mail server
> should provide you with all the information you need -- each
> SquirrelMail login can be seen as a LOGIN hit on your IMAP server and
> each email sent should be logged by postfix.  However, if you want to
> monitor discrete SquirrelMail usage, you should install the Squirrel
> Logger plugin, which can log all of the events you listed above.  Also
> note that if you're capable/interested in using the Vadmin plugin, it
> also provides some logging that is presented directly to the
> administrator in the SquirrelMail interface (primarily last login time
> and which users have/have not used webmail).
>
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