We have an Alpha OSF 3.2C system running enhanced security. There are
currently about 3500 accounts.
How do you turn off e-mail (incoming) for a particular user? We have a
large number of user accounts which are being turned off for the year, and
will be deleted eventually, but many of them are still receiving e-mail
from various mailing lists.
I found that if you change the protection on the /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME
file to 000, no more mail will arrive (and a nasty bounce message results,
which should take care of the mailing lists, in time), but this seems a
little crude. Is there a more elegant and standard method? (Su'ing to
each account, checking mail to determine each list, and sending the
appropriate unsubscribe message is pretty much out of the question, if
for no other reason that the extent of the problem... about 1600
accounts need to have this done, and this will be an annual event.)
Also, how do you restrict the amount of diskspace used by incoming mail?
I know that I can set up disk quotas for each user under AdvFS, which we
are using on all of our partitions. Does each user have to have a
separate quota in the /var partition as well?
Thankyou!
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Cheryl K. Haaker, haaker_at_technet.nm.org (505) 345-6555
New Mexico Technet - System Manager
5921 Jefferson NE - Albuquerque, NM 87109
"If you don't show your ignorance, nobody will hit you, and
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