[Dovecot] Temporarily disable mail delivery when using Dovecot's LDA
Stan Hoeppner
stan at hardwarefreak.com
Sat Sep 14 09:36:00 EEST 2013
On 9/14/2013 12:33 AM, Avinash Sultanpur wrote:
> How can I disable mail delivery to a user or a mailbox temporarily. Is
> there something in the lines of qmail where you set a sticky bit on
> the home directory and mail delivery is deferred?
This is a job for your MTA, not Dovecot. Dovecot has no deferred queue,
and in fact has no mail queues at all.
Do you actually want to defer the mail into a queue, or do you want to
return a 4xx "mailbox temporarily unavailable" to the sender?
In other words, what problem are you trying to solve?
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Stan
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