Talon declaimed: > Hi, > > I would like to disable email for one particular account. > How is this done? (Running woody and exim) > > I believe I can stop an account from receiving email > by creating a sym link: > > # ln -s /dev/null /var/mail/username This will (depending on how your system is configured) stop local mail to their account, and prevent exim from forwarding mail to them.
> > but how would I disable them from sending mail? > You'll have to read the exim.conf documentation to find out how to customize the TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION section and customize the local_delivery transport. Note that these methods will only stop them from sending & receiving mail using the account on that particular box, if they have internet access they have any number ways to send & receive email using other accounts unless you throttle their access back so much that they might as well not have an account (IMO). I'd be glad to hear from more experienced sysadmins on this, and I'm curious as to what's the problem with a normal user having mail access. HTH, Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
