[Dovecot] temporary disable account

Lampa lampacz at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 09:13:52 EEST 2008


Hello,

MTA is qmail, and there is no problem with it (qmail is stopped for
current user - sticky bit set). Problem is dovecot - and is not
possible to stop dovecot (due to clients)

2008/4/8, Tolga <tolga at ozses.net>:
>
>
>  Lampa wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there some way how to disable temporarily account or access to
> > files. I need to backup with tar, but there is problem when tar is
> > reading and some file changed (with --ignore-failed-read it continues
> > but archive is not created and without --ignore-failed-read it fails).
> > Some accounts are huge ;( Need something like qmail sticky bit or
> > world writable directory - qmail is not delivering when one of above
> > conditions hits.
> >
> >
>  Stop your MTA.
>
> > Thank you for helping me.
> >
> >
>
>  --
>  Stay with *nix :)
>
>


-- 
Lampa


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