I think he needs it to disable an entire domain tho. not just a user.
----- Original Message -----
From: "cbunnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jesper Hess
Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Closing an account when a customer hasn't paid?
> ....snip.....
>
> All WAY too much work. Use the power that vpopmail gives you.
>
> ns3:~ 4% /RAID/vpopmail/bin/vmoduser
> vmoduser: usage: [options] email_addr or domain (for the entire domain)
> options: -n (don't rebuild the vpasswd.cdb file)
> -u (set no dialup flag)
> -d (set no password changing flag)
> -p (set no pop access flag)
> -w (set no web mail access flag)
> -i (set no imap access flag)
> -b (set bounce mail flag)
> -r (set no external relay flag)
> -c comment (set the comment/gecos field)
> -x (clear all flags)
>
>
> vmoduser the user and set the -p flag. Then they're email will continue
to
> queue up, but they can't POP in to get it until they pay up. If they go
> delinquent long enough (see company policy) then vdeluser them!
>
> If they pay, vmoduser -x to reset them to be able to pop.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Chris Bunnell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jesper Hess Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Closing an account when a customer hasn't paid?
>
>
> > Easy methods:
> >
> > 1. They don't get mail while not paying:
> > 1. remove the line from /var/qmail/control files. it doesn't
> see
> > it as local, but the passwords and existing usernames/messages exist.
> > 2. move the password file (or dump and delete the MySQL rows)
> for
> > the domain. Mail coming in will not be recieved and they will not be
able
> > to authenticate. Since they can't authenticate, they can't open a
relay.
> > 2. They DO get mail while not paying:
> > 1. simply backup the password file and make a simple awk or
sed
> > script to change the password field to maybe 'haha' or something. Of
> > course, who knows what encrypted string that is, so unless they are
really
> > ___REALLY___ lucky, they won't be able to login to get their mail. They
> > will however still receive mail [useful for 'payment is in the mail'-
you
> > don't want your customers business failing because you lost their big
> > contract and big client] and it will queue up on the server and be there
> > when you do get paid. When you get paid, copy the password file back
and
> > you're set. Be sure to run ./vmkpasswd after any changes if you use CDB
> > files. On SQL, this is easier, as you can just make an update where
> > domain="domain.com" password="haha" or something like that.
> >
> > These are valid solutions. THey make sense and work quite well. Your
> > alternate is to maybe place a file in the domain directory. If it
exists,
> > it should not allow anything to happen for the domain... this of course
> > requires a code hack
> >
> > Cheers- Hopefully good temporary solutions
> > --
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jesper Hess Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:52 PM
> > Subject: Closing an account when a customer hasn't paid?
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there an easy way to close a domain temporarily, allowing me to
shut
> > off
> > > all incoming and outgoing mail when a customer hasn't paid? - It would
> be
> > > cool if you could send a message to people when they log on via pop3
> > saying
> > > "Pay up or ship out" :-)
> > >
> > > /Jesper
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
