Looking for mailwatch app

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2008-08-30, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> >>> Maybe I could add some placeholders so you could do something
> >>> like "notify-send Mailwatch 'You have %n new messages in
> >>> mailbox %m'".  Someone should file a feature request ^_^.
> >> 
> >> I'm going to get it going the way it is first. :)
> >
> > Right... I'd need to make code changes for that to work anyway.
> 
> Couldn't the "run on new messages" program be used to send a
> notification?

Yeah, sorry, I wasn't clear.  You can certainly use that 'run on new
messages' program to put up a notification, but you'll only be able to
put up something like 'you have new mail'.  I was thinking that the
ability to add more detailed information (number of messages, mailbox
name, etc.) would be a cool feature.

> >> The other reason I'd do it is so that I can turn up the logging
> >> level in my IMAP servers so that they log all login/logout
> >> events.  With mailwatchers on 3-4 machines logging in/out of
> >> the server every minute (or even every 10 minutes), that
> >> creates quite a bit of noise in the server log.  If the
> >> mailwatchers kept connections up, then I could have more
> >> detailed IMAP logs.
> >
> > Well, they wouldn't be more detailed, just have a higher S/N
> > ratio.  I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to filter out the
> > periodic hits, though.
> 
> I didn't word that very clearly.  Right now, I don't have
> logging turned up very far on my IMAP servers because of all
> the noise from mailwatcher apps.  Were the mailwatcher apps to
> hold connections open, then it would be practical to turn up
> the logging -- resulting in more detailed logs.

Ah, I understand.  I'd consider looking into maintaining connections
(this would also be useful for IMAP servers that support "push email"),
but certainly not before the next release.

	-brian