[Dovecot] Temporarily disable mail delivery when using Dovecot's LDA
Hi,
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?
Thanks, Avinash.
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?
-- Stan
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 01:36:00AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
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?
I should have described it earlier. My mailboxes are named after the usernames and I want to rename the mailbox whenever the username changes. Found this thread about the same topic.
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-February/133339.html
Also the doveadm-mailbox(1) has a rename argument. I will check out what it does.
Thanks, Avinash.
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