| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
On VMS, we can disable an interactive login user from receiving emails
by using the Authorize utility and modifying the user record flags.
On Digital UNIX V4.0B, how can we do this ?
Any suggestions ??
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8969.1 | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Wed Feb 26 1997 09:25 | 11 | |
One way:
# touch /var/spool/mail/username
# chmod ugo-w /var/spool/mail/username
Senders will get a "service unavailable" error return.
You can get arbitrarily fancy by playing with your sendmail.cf and/or
aliases files.
-Tom
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| 8969.2 | use aliases | SEPPLT::MARK | Mark Garrett | Wed Feb 26 1997 22:50 | 13 |
My prefered way is not to disable mail and alias all misc accounts to admin then point admin at my account using aliases. To actually stop mail alias the user to /dev/null. For Digital UNIX edit /var/adm/sendmail/aliases add lines like guest: /dev/null then Run sendmail -bi to rebuild the alias db. Done. Cheers Mark :) | |||||
| 8969.3 | VAXCPU::michaud | Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker | Thu Feb 27 1997 02:06 | 13 | |
> My prefered way is not to disable mail and alias all misc accounts to admin > then point admin at my account using aliases. like to read other peoples mail? shame shame > then Run sendmail -bi to rebuild the alias db. Done. or run "newaliases" which I find easier to remember :-) Another alternative is to either use a .forward or an aliases file alias to route the mail to the vacation(1) or simliar program that sends mail a reply back to senders with a nice message about .... | |||||
| 8969.4 | SEPPLT::MARK | Mark Garrett | Thu Feb 27 1997 04:32 | 7 | |
> like to read other peoples mail? shame shame Yes I always like to read mail from root,sys,adm,bin,ftp,uucp ... :) I don't think I would call them people though :) Cheers mark :) | |||||