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How to track down who removed messages in Courier-IMAP on a Plesk server?

 
debugemailimapinterfaceip

Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux

Question

How to track down who removed email messages on a Plesk for Linux server with Courier-IMAP?

Answer

It is possible to define from which IP address a message was removed in a mail client for Courier-IMAP service when Debug mode is enabled.

To enable debug mode:

  1. Connect to the server via SSH
For IMAP
  1. Open the /etc/courier-imap/imapd file for editing. For example, using the vi text editor:

    # vi /etc/courier-imap/imapd

  2. Uncomment the line below by removing the # symbol at the beginning of the line:

    IMAP_LOG_DELETIONS=1

    Save changes and close the file.

  3. Restart Courier-IMAP services by executing the command below:

    # service courier-imapd restart && service courier-imaps restart

For POP3
  1. Open the /etc/courier-imap/pop3d file for editing. For example, using the vi text editor:

    # vi /etc/courier-imap/pop3d

  2. Uncomment the line below by removing the # symbol at the beginning of the line:

    POP3_LOG_DELETIONS=1

    Save changes and close the file.

  3. Restart Courier-IMAP services by executing the command below:

    # service courier-pop3d restart && service courier-pop3s restart

After the debug mode is enabled, each removal of the message from a mail client/webmail interface will be logged to the /var/log/maillog log file.

Messages like the below will appear:

courier-imaps: EXPUNGED, [email protected], ip=[::ffff:203.0.113.2], port=[29075], old_name=./cur/1656476008.M583215P25458V0000000000000801I0000000001921F18.example.com,S=1756:2,ST


courier-pop3s: DELETED, [email protected], ip=[::ffff:203.0.113.2], port=[32689], filename=cur/1656477401.M29006P14385V0000000000000801I0000000001921F1A.example.com,S=1779:2,S

The IP address in bold will be the IP address of the computer from which the email message was removed.

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