monitor pop3 activities

zovres · 09-26-2003, 12:51 PM

I need to know what goes trough my pop3 server and who log into it in order to establish an account expiration system

I've looked everywhere without succes :\

can anyone help me?

win32sux · 09-26-2003, 02:13 PM

what pop3 server are you running and on what distro?

are you using a webmail system on it?

zovres · 09-29-2003, 09:21 AM

I'm running the default pop3 & imap servers that comes with redhat9.0, I don't think they have name. and I have a webmail which is squirrelmail (also comes with redhat and I love it)

horlix · 09-29-2003, 10:03 AM

/var/log/maillog might have what you need.

zovres · 09-29-2003, 11:55 AM

all right!!!! it's gonna be perfect for my account expiration program.

thx !

zovres · 09-29-2003, 11:57 AM

now, how could I run a php script every 24h?
I could launch galeon and set the homepage to be the script but that wouldn't be an ideal solution, even more if I can't close it after...

horlix · 09-29-2003, 06:01 PM

if the intention of the script is to gather the usernames from /var/log/maillog and create a list of active mail accounts then I wouldnt have thought that using php was necessary.

bash scripting should be able to cope easily enough, and can be run as a cron job as often as needed.

as you say setting the php script as your homepage and starting a browser is not the answer :-)

zovres · 09-30-2003, 09:19 AM

well, the purpose of the script is to analyse /var/log/maillog and update a mysql database... I know how to update the DB via php but I don't know if it is possible with bash.
I'm sure the analysis of maillog can be done by both.

do you know how to add a cron job and tell it to run every 24h?