Sandra wrote:
> I was trying to know why unix-notify is not working in cyrus-imap +
> postfix. I have
> compiled cyrus to use unix-notity socket, but the message about over
> quota is
> displayed in /var/log/maillog.
> Is simple_notify.pl searching this message in /var/log/messages or
> Am i wrong?
> How does it work? Do I have to configure some place to change this
> search?
>
unix-notify is a hook that gets called each time a message is delivered
(from doc/overview.htm):
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New Mail Notification
The Cyrus IMAP server comes with two optional notification
mechanisms, for use with either the Zephyr notification service, or
a custom Unix sockets notification daemon.
<...>
Unix Sockets Daemon
If the server software is compiled with the custom Unix sockets
notification daemon mechanism, then the server creates a Unix
socket connection to /var/imap/socket/notify and passes the
following information (separated by newlines):
1. Class
2. Instance
3. User: The username that the email is being delivered to
4. Mailbox: The folder that the email is being delivered to
5. Message: The From, To, and Subject headers of the email.
The contrib/notify_unix directory has two examples of Perl daemons
that implement simple notification. See the README file located the
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This does not do over-quota notification. For that you need quotacheck,
which (along with lots of other great tools) is available at Cyrus-utils:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33489
