Locking just one email address?

[flamewalker]

I think I already know the answer to this, but is there a way to disable just one email account? For instance, on our old slackware linux email server (we had in-house), our enable and disable scripts used 'passwd -l user' to disable/lock and 'passwd -u user' to enable/unlock.

I am integrating our back end with DA, and I suspect the easiest way is going to just be to change the password to something set via script, and back to the original to enable?

TIA.
Jamey

 

[nobaloney]

You can probably use the same code, but remember your user account owners can still change their password.

And of course this doesn't disable the account, only the user's ability to log in to get email.

Jeff

 

[flamewalker]

You can probably use the same code, but remember your user account owners can still change their password.

And of course this doesn't disable the account, only the user's ability to log in to get email.

Jeff

We are an isp, and sell/package emails on our domain, so only we have access to the account that can control the emails@ourdomain passwords, so this isn't a problem.

For other domains, I just suspend the account, which disables everything under their account.

I suspected this was the easiest way. Thanks!
Jamey

 

[flamewalker]

This way, too, the customer's mailbox still receives their emails, which customers tend to be more at ease with than emails being bounced due to the mailbox being disabled.