Possible workaround(s) for mail user temporary suspension?

[Alain Spineux]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Christian Rößler <Roessler at fuh-e.de> wrote:
> Alain Spineux schrieb:
>
>>> 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 ?
>
> Well, I just need the 'suspended' user to stay in the LDAP tree for the
> posixAccount, also for the nss-ldap in the intranet, and as
> documentation that the user once existed.

You can remove all the Kolab's related objectClass and their attributes.
Then these cleaned entry will be ignored by postfix and probably by
the weba admin interface too.
I dont know if any tools exist for this.


>
> But the user should not be able to log in anymore, and Kolab should not
> take emails for him/her. One could say that Kolab should behave like the
> uses does not exist.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Thank you for that hint, this will surely prove useful.
>
> Best regards, and thanks for your answer,
> Christian Rößler
>
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