[Dovecot] temporary disable account

[Tom Hendrikx]

Maybe the problem is not with Dovecot, but with your backup strategy?
The same problem exists with files in regular homedirs. You could look
into generic solutions for this problem f.i. LVM snapshots.

Regards,
	Tom

Lampa schreef:
> Hello,
> 
> that's not good solution ;( some mailboxes have 1 - 3GB. So need
> another solution
> 
> Or it can be feature request: disable access when user homedir is sticky ?
> 
> 2008/4/8, Tolga <tolga at ozses.net>:
>>
>>  Lampa wrote:
>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>>
>>  Then copy mailboxes to somewhere else and make backup there.
>>
>>> 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 :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>  --
>>  Stay with *nix :)
>>
>>
> 
>