IIRC, this was discussed but never implemented. There were suggestions of 
having an enabled/disabled boolean or a more capable status or billing_status 
field to allow for exactly this situation: mail comes in, but the user cannot 
read the mail until they have paid their bills or otherwise resolved their 
account status.

Aaron


Brian Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> any previous discussion on this?
> 
> How is everyone handling accounts that are simply administratively disabled
> from logging and/or receiving mail, but want to keep the "users" account
> around?
> 
> currently, the only way I see to do this is to change the passwd to
> something totally unguessable.
> 
> the user will get an authentication error, but is that the proper message
> for this state?
> 
> In our current primary mail server, we can have an account that will collect
> mail, but the login is disabled.
> 
> Trying to login (POP) with the correct name/pwd gives this error:
> 
>     -ERR [AUTH] login for this account is disabled
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Brian
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