Consider creating an alias for this user -- incoming mail can be rejected by a
false alias, but later reversed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Lee To: Peter Burden Cc: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [courier-users] Closing accounts (temporarily)

On Jan 28, 2008 10:03 AM, Peter Burden <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, A user has left and our central authentication (MS ADO via PAM/LDAP)
his disabled his login so he cannot collect any incoming e-mail, however until they cancel (rather
than disable) the account, the e-mail address is still valid. The accounts on the
Linux system simply track those on MS ADO via scripts using LDAP etc.,., Is there a simple way a current account can be made inoperative so that
mail to the account receives a no-such user response. [I'm also thinking about the possibility of a disgruntled former
employee indulging in a quiet spot of mail bombing.]

If you're requiring SMTP authentication (and you should be) then he shouldn't
be able to send email from his old address, the account should only be able to
receive mail (since incoming SMTP only checks for an accounts existence, it
doesn't try to authenticate). If you want to completely disable the account
you'll need to modify whatever attribute Courier does email lookups against.
Normally in LDAP this is the mail attribute so part of your account disable
proces could be to change the ldap mail attribute to blank or disabled or
whatever.

Jay

-- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University

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