Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-10 Thread Tullio Andreatta
>From: Shaun Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi there > > I need to do the following : > > - lock a mailbox (without deleting it or the mail contained in it) > - if a user tries to access a mailbox locked like this all they get back > when trying to collect mail is a preset 'call support to re-ena

Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-08 Thread Robert Sanderson
Shaun, Try something like this, Create a root owned Maildir with world read access: #mkdir /etc/pop3lock #mkdir /etc/pop3lock/users #/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/pop3lock/Maildir #chmod -R +rx /etc/pop3lock Add the e-mail message you want the user to retrieve to /etc/pop3lock/Maildir/new/ a

Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Aled Treharne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ok, here's a random idea that suddenly occurred to me: > > When the account is locked, the POP daemon recognises this, and when a > user tries to get their mail, only send 1 message, which is a standard > message from tech Support telling the user that

Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread Aled Treharne
Ok, here's a random idea that suddenly occurred to me: When the account is locked, the POP daemon recognises this, and when a user tries to get their mail, only send 1 message, which is a standard message from tech Support telling the user that their account is locked and instructions on what to

Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Shaun Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > - lock a mailbox (without deleting it or the mail contained in it) How do you normally lock an account on your particular flavor of unix? What's your authentication scheme? > - if a user tries to access a mailbox locked like this all they get back > w

locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread rogers-qmail
From: Shaun Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:18:08 +0200 Hi there I need to do the following : - lock a mailbox (without deleting it or the mail contained in it) - if a user tries to access a mailbox locked like this all they get back when trying to coll

locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread Shaun Gibson
Hi there I need to do the following : - lock a mailbox (without deleting it or the mail contained in it) - if a user tries to access a mailbox locked like this all they get back when trying to collect mail is a preset 'call support to re-enable this mailbox'. Suggestions anyone ? -- Shaun Gib