Apparently not in my case. My mail server only has some admin accounts not all of our user accounts. No NIS or NIS+ either. I'm thinking that the only way it knows of "esanborn" is via Cyrus...
-Ed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Scussel Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:18 PM To: Ed Sanborn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disabling email delivery. Actually, I believe that sendmail by default uses the Password/Shadow file (PAM) for authentication. It should also check here for users. This means that if you remove the login/passwd for this user in the passwd/shadow file then mail will no longer be routeable to this user. Then you don't have to worry about cyrus. Basically I see removing a user from cyrus is only done for "house cleaning" to free up space, and isn't really necessary, once the MTA can no longer deliver. Let me know if you need more info, Bobby Ed Sanborn wrote: > > Thanks B. OK, baby steps please. I am Unix knowledgful. > Old Pop3 and somewhat sendmail savvy but I've been spending > way too much time recently with (gulp) Exchange. > > Our MTA is sendmail on Solaris 8. > > So basically I would copy the /var/imap/spool/user/userx to >/var/imap/spool/user/userx.old > and then remove userx via cyradm, right? What is the syntax? Is it: > > cyradm -u cyrus mailservername ? > > deletemailbox userx > > Don't I need to specify imap or something on the cyradm command? > > The man page for cyradm is lacking a few examples which would > help a newbie such as myself. > > -Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Robert Scussel > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:59 PM > To: Ed Sanborn > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Disabling email delivery. > > Depending on what MTA you are using, you can just remove the user. Exim > will lookup the user to see if they exist, before attempting to deliver > the email. Therefore, if you change the name/remove the user, then any > mail will bounce. > > As long as you don't touch the actual directory that the user owned, you > won't lose the email. You can cp that directory, and delete the user > using cyradmin..... > > Hope this helps, > B > > Ed Sanborn wrote: > > > > OK, I just took over administration of our > > Cyrus mail server. The person I took over for no longer > > works for the company. How do I "disable" his account > > so that he no longer receives email. Mind you I > > do NOT want to blow away his email, nor his email account, > > I just want to disable it. I have already changed his > > sasl password so that he can't retrieve email. Now I want > > to have reception stopped so that messages stop queuing up. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ed > > > > Ed Sanborn (978) 367-8478 > > Principal Network Administrator > > SnowShore Networks > > 285 Billerica Rd. > > Chelmsford, MA. 01824 > > -- > Robert Scussel > 1024D/BAF70959/0036 B19E 86CE 181D 0912 5FCC 92D8 1EA1 BAF7 0959 -- Robert Scussel 1024D/BAF70959/0036 B19E 86CE 181D 0912 5FCC 92D8 1EA1 BAF7 0959
