From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 08:45:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1A516A4BF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beaver.ncia.net (beaver.ncia.net [69.24.0.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797C543FDF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rj@ncia.net) Received: from ncia.net (lithium.rjt.org [192.168.1.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by beaver.ncia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E0667C for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:45:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:45:54 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Ryan J.Taylor To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3F61E6D6.8020800@pyramus.com> Message-Id: <31BA8C7B-E538-11D7-ABC3-00306583DA7C@ncia.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Re: Best practices for disabling email accounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:45:59 -0000 On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 11:31 AM, Blake Swensen wrote: > Many of you are in the same boat, where customers fall behind and > collections letters still do not seem to grab their attention. > > Short of changing passwords, does anyone have a best practices method > of temporarily preventing access to email boxes temporarily. In most > of these cases, once the customer has paid, I would like to turn back > on the email boxes. You could run "pw lock username" on the account and then add something like: username@pyramus.com 550 Account locked to your /etc/mail/access (if you're running Sendmail). When it's time to unlock the account just do a "pw unlock username" and then remove the entry from your Sendmail access file. *Don't forget to rebuild the access file hash for Sendmail.* > Thanks > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The Internet Rescue Company - http://www.pyramus.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Blake R. Swensen Pyramus Online, Inc. > President 2080 SE Oak Grove Blvd. Suite 11 > Milwaukie, Oregon 97267 > 800-327-5101 > vox:503-353-0455 > fax:503-353-0453 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "We measure success by the success of our clients" Regards, RJ