Possible workaround(s) for mail user temporary suspension?

[Alain Spineux]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Christian Rößler <Roessler at fuh-e.de> wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
>
> I was searching for a possibility to suspend an user account (mail

What do you means by suspend ?

Able to read his mail but not eable to send ?
Even not ebale to access his mailbox ?
Email sent to him should bounce ?

> account, primarily). After a little bit of internet research I just
> found a wish for exactly the same thing:
> http://www.kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-devel/2005-August/004188.html
>
> Can anyone tell me if this suggestion is already implemented in Kolab,
> and I am just too dense today to find it? And, if not, has anyone a good
> work-around for this?


What I do, is to edit the ldap 'userPassword' attribute like that :

{SSHA}aAKCKsf+qzWqQUBhvpCZIHgXX23A/Tnz

into :

disabled{SSHA}aAKCKsf+qzWqQUBhvpCZIHgXX23A/Tnz

That way cannot login anymore but I keep the original password safe.

Regards.

>
> Best regards,
> Christian Rößler
>
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