Re: Disable Mail Delivery

Or, if you have procmail installed, have it refuse/bounce all 
(non-daemon) messages directed at your disabled addresses.

Cheers,
-- 
Rick Troxel, HPC @ NIH Staff     [email protected]     301/435-2983

Yesterday (07/02/17) at 21:42 -0000, Tim Showalter wrote:

> 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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