Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

[Russell Jackson]

Russell Jackson wrote:
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a small install with cyrus-imapd 2.3.14, which reads some of its
>> mails with fetchmail. To limit the delay in mail delivery, fetchmail
>> awakes each minute to get mails.
>> What I would like is let fetchmail do that only when there's a client
>> actually reading its mails, i.e. an MUA actually connected to imapd.
>>
>> So, my question: how to hook a script each time a client
>> connects/disconnects from imapd ?
>>
> 
> Check /var/imap/proc for files. If any are present, then a client is connected. Write a
> polling script to run out of cron that checks for this and runs fetchmail if appropriate.
> I'll let other's comment on the soundness of this.
> 

Opps. Didn't see that second sub-thread that said pretty much the same exact thing already.


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Russell A. Jackson <raj at csub.edu>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield