Re: Disable Mail Delivery

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more of a sendmail question than an IMAP question, but sure... just make an
alias in /etc/aliases and send the incoming mail for any account you want
to disable to /dev/null. See man aliases for details, and make sure you run
newaliases after you edit the aliases file.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Rick Knight <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a private mail server at home, but due to the huge amount of SPAM
> being received lately I have decided to shut down the mail server. I have
> Uw-imap and sendmail running on the server. This is a multi-purpose server,
> so I can't just delete the users, and because some accounts are still
> receiving important mail I can't just turn off the imap server. What I want
> to do is stop all email delivery to accounts that I know are not receiving
> anything important, and then at some point down the road, when I know it's
> safe I'll shutdown imap.
>
> So my question is, how do I prevent Uw-imap from receiving email for a
> specific account, but not all accounts, without deleting that account?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
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<div dir=3D"ltr">more of a sendmail question than an IMAP question, but sur=
e... just make an alias in /etc/aliases and send the incoming mail for any =
account you want to disable to /dev/null. See man aliases for details, and =
make sure you run newaliases after you edit the aliases file.</div><div cla=
ss=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:=
10 PM, Rick Knight <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:rlkknight@gmail.=
com" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockq=
uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc =
solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a private mail server at home, but due to th=
e huge amount of SPAM being received lately I have decided to shut down the=
 mail server. I have Uw-imap and sendmail running on the server. This is a =
multi-purpose server, so I can&#39;t just delete the users, and because som=
e accounts are still receiving important mail I can&#39;t just turn off the=
 imap server. What I want to do is stop all email delivery to accounts that=
 I know are not receiving anything important, and then at some point down t=
he road, when I know it&#39;s safe I&#39;ll shutdown imap.<br>
<br>
So my question is, how do I prevent Uw-imap from receiving email for a spec=
ific account, but not all accounts, without deleting that account?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Rick<br>
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