Re: Sendmail: Suspending users

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

Ditesh Kumar wrote:

> I'm wondering how does one go about getting sendmail to stop accepting mail for certain users (temporarily).
>
> ps: Right now, I'm using procmail to send the mail for these users to /dev/null.

This is quite unfriendly, unless these are system accounts set up solely for system purposes.  The solutions mentioned in Gary Wright's reply are much friendlier if a person is sending the email.

Alan