[SM-USERS] User logging and reporting
Hi, I'm interested in what capabilities are available to track users, such as amount of time they logged in, when each user logged in last, perhaps who hasn't logged in within the last month, and maybe even a record of the senders and recipients involving them. 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. 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... Thanks, Alex -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev - squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
Re: [SM-USERS] User logging and reporting
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in what capabilities are available to track users, such > as amount of time they logged in, when each user logged in last, > perhaps who hasn't logged in within the last month, and maybe even a > record of the senders and recipients involving them. > > 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). -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev - squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
Re: [SM-USERS] User logging and reporting
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). > > -- > Paul Lesniewski > SquirrelMail Team > Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! > http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php > > -- > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > - > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev - squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
