At 20:00 28-10-98 +0200, Liviu Daia wrote:
On 28 October 1998, Clemens Schmuck
<clemens(_at_)wst(_dot_)edvz(_dot_)sbg(_dot_)ac(_dot_)at> wrote:
[...]
so does anybody know how to 'close' mailboxes for individual users
using procmail?
I think this would require a lot of work. The approach would likely
involve a systemwide procmail script.
nastyboy: /dev/null
to your system-wide alias file for each user that shouldn't receive
mail, then run "newaliases".
If you're running a sufficiently current (v8 ?) Sendmail (you definatley
are), check out the virtusertable feature. You could make an entry such as:
nastyboy(_at_)domain ERROR: 550 This account closed due to spamming.
(use appropriate message for your situtation though)
This should keep the system from so much as accepting inbound mail for the
user -- and lets the sender know that. I think aliasing the user mailbox
to /dev/null will still ACCEPT the mail, just route it to trash for local
delivery - thus a mailbomb to a closed mailbox for example would still suck
your bandwidth. Does anyone know different?
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