Use the vacation message feature to send back a message indicating the user is no longer there. Permanent vacation.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:10:51 -0500 > >>How do you "suspend" or stop a user account? I'm using 7.13 and have an >>account for a terminated employee. I want all email sent to this address >>returned to the sender with an indication that this email account is not >>valid. > >That's easy; just delete the account. > >>I can't just delete the account because I have a "nobody" alias on the >>domain that would redirect incoming email to another user. > >Ah, that's a different story -- you want to accept all E-mail to any >possible address on your domain, except for one. That's a bit trickier. > >>I've had this delimma before and worked >>around it by setting max mailbox messages to 1. I can do that here but >>would rather have a cleaner solution. > >There is no "clean" solution to this problem -- the "nobody" alias is >designed to catch *all* E-mail to accounts that do not exist. > >I believe people have set this up before, by either using autoresponders or >having the mail forwarded (as aliases to?) a non-existent address that >would cause a real bounce message. > > -Scott >--- >Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for >IMail. http://www.declude.com > >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
