[Dovecot] temporary disable account

[Lampa]

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 :)
>
>


-- 
Lampa