Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 16:04:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: paul@riker.comcirc.com.au (Paul Sondhu) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access Message-ID: <199605142304.QAA13194@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960515084552.11697D-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au> from "Paul Sondhu" at May 15, 96 08:54:25 am
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> 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. How frequently are you willing to empty root's mailbox of bounce messages? That's the problem... Really, you want to have a user class identifier which is respected by sendmail and by POP and so on... bits that say "this user can recieve mail, that user can't" or "this user can login via pop". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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