Best practices for disabling email accounts

[Ryan J.Taylor]

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 11:31 AM, Blake Swensen wrote:

> Many of you are in the same boat, where customers fall behind and 
> collections letters still do not seem to grab their attention.
>
> Short of changing passwords, does anyone have a best practices method 
> of temporarily preventing access to email boxes temporarily. In most 
> of these cases, once the customer has paid, I would like to turn back 
> on the email boxes.

You could run "pw lock username" on the account and then add something 
like:
username at pyramus.com	550 Account locked
to your /etc/mail/access (if you're running Sendmail).

When it's time to unlock the account just do a "pw unlock username" and 
then remove the entry from your Sendmail access file.

*Don't forget to rebuild the access file hash for Sendmail.*


> Thanks
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Regards,
RJ