[Dovecot] temporary disable account

[Tolga]

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 :)
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>   

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Stay with *nix :)