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Date:      Wed, 15 May 1996 08:54:25 +1000 (EST)
From:      Paul Sondhu <paul@riker.comcirc.com.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960515084552.11697D-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605141755.KAA12661@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > I am setting up a few user accounts on our WWW server so that users can
> > FTP to the server to post up their web pages into their relevant 
> > web page directories.
> > 
> > How can I disable email access for these users. ie. I dont want them
> > to have an email account, only an account to FTP files to.
> 
> The easiest (grossest) way would be to define another name for
> the machine and *not* put in a Cw entry for it.
> 
> Then set up aliases for all the users that you don't want to get
> mail to forward to the illegal host.
> 
> Alternately, you could bounce mail with a refusal using an alias
> script (but that would require a bit more work).
> 
> This will keep the mail from accumulating, anyway.
> 
>

How about just setting up aliases to forward to an illegal username on the
same machine. ie. I just set up 'user: noone' in the /etc/aliases file (
where user is a real user and noone doesnt exit )  and I tried to send some
mail to 'user' from another machine and it bounced back.

Paul.

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