From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 14:43:56 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 C293316A4BF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0679243FF5 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@bitfreak.org) Received: from speck.techno.pagans (12-206-23-247.client.attbi.com [12.206.23.247]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819362A41F; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speck.techno.pagans (localhost.techno.pagans [127.0.0.1]) by speck.techno.pagans (Postfix) with SMTP id 23D53C0EE; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:43:39 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim To: jc@irbs.com Message-Id: <20030912144339.7fba0ad7.dmp@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20030912165829.GA10072@exuma.irbs.com> References: <3F61E6D6.8020800@pyramus.com> <20030912165829.GA10072@exuma.irbs.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG 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 21:43:56 -0000 On 2003.09.12 12:58:29 -0400, John Capo wrote: > Quoting Blake Swensen (blake@pyramus.com): > > 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. > > > > Reject incoming email but allow access to the mailbox so that your > customer can retrieve mail you have already accepted. Rejecting > further email notifies the senders that the email was not delivered > and they can contact your customer by other means. You have to notify the customer that the account contents will be forfeit if the account goes long enough without payment. Such notice is usually part of the service contract so that you don't have to deal with contacting a scarce customer later on and you have an official document that gets you out of lawsuits. This is common practice with self-storage lockers, leased mailboxes, etc. There's even a similar clause for most apartments.