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Old 06-04-2009, 11:24 PM   #1
christopher_c
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Checking Last time a user checked their mail? (Postfix)

Hello,

Im trying to figure out the last time a user had checked their email so I can weed out the inactive accounts.

I tried checking the /var/mail/*account* file on an account but wasnt able to see any sort of timestamp.

Im using postfix.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated !
 
Old 06-04-2009, 11:38 PM   #2
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quick update:

I just used the following to grab all the logins in var/log/maillog , but not sure if this is correct or not
Code:
grep "imap-login: Login:" maillog
 
Old 06-05-2009, 12:08 AM   #3
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Depends a bit on how long you keeps your logs for.
 
Old 06-06-2009, 02:57 AM   #4
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Yeah sadly it seemed to be only about 7 days...so no luck
 
Old 02-28-2019, 08:32 AM   #5
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Track last user authentication (smtpd/submission)
Hi
Recently i made a daemon in python to track last user authentication when he send an email ( ports 465 and 587 ), ( see for yourselves https://github.com/noskoski/postfix_smtpd_last_auth/ ).
But if you want to track pop3/imap you may user post-login function from dovecot. https://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
 
  


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