Possible workaround(s) for mail user temporary suspension?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Christian Rößler <Roessler at FuH-E.de>:

> Christian Rößler schrieb:
>
>> 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.
>> I also have not found any tools for this. [...] Well, I had just the same
>  > thoughts, so for trying it out I wrote a shell script that reads a given
>  > user entry, strips each Kolab related entry and object class from it and
>  > writes the Kolab related entries into an LDAP archive branch.
>
> Well, me again - funny answering my own mail.
>
> I have written three scripts (a wrapper script for deciding, a disabling
> script, an enabling script) for disabling and re-enabling users, and
> they are functioning so far. If someone would deem them useful for,
> perhaps, expanding them or using them as a base for writing better ones,
> I would gladly share them here.

As you mentioned there is a bug already requesting such a feature I'd  
suggest you attach the scripts there. We are very happy about any such  
contribution!

The Wiki might also be a good place for things like this.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> But they were written quickly yesterday, and surely they have a lot of
> potential for optimizing, and a bit more debugging.
>
> Best regards, Christian
>
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