[imp] entire inbox deleted?

[Craig White]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlewis@lewis.org [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 11:42 AM
> To: imp@lists.horde.org
> Subject: RE: [imp] entire inbox deleted?
>
>
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Craig White wrote:
>
> > > She claims not to have.  It would be easy enough to see in the logs
> > > though.  I'll have to try to get a list of times "it's just
> happened" and
> > > see if there was a POP3 session just before and if lots of
> messages were
> > > deleted.
> > >
> > ----
> > just grep the maillog for a pop3 session for that account.
>
> I don't know how long ago it last happened.  I was just notified about it
> for the first time yesterday.
>
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shouldn't matter - you should be able to pipe the output of the grep for
that account into a new file - the maillog typically contains a week and you
can handle it quite easily.

I'm not much of a shell programmer but I can do this...

grep accountname /var/log/maillog > /temp/account.mail.log
if I want to go back another week
grep accountname /var/log/maillog.1 >> /temp/account.mail.log

and then finally,

grep ipop3d /temp/account.mail.log

I will know instantly whether a pop3 session occurred within the last 2
weeks on that account.

Craig