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<p>hello it's me again with another question:</p>
<p>I'm mucking out old e-mail accounts and, instead of deleting
them, I clicked in the GUI on <nobr style="font-weight:bold;">Suspended
[√]</nobr> where a tool-tip says:</p>
<pre style="margin-left:4px; background-color:#ddd; padding:4px;width:500px;font-size:90%;">Suspending a user will prevent that user from accessing system services
associated with that account such as telnet, FTP, mail, and Web access to
their files. <span style="background-color:#ffc;padding:0 4px;">Email sent to the suspended user's account will be
rejected and the sender will receive an error message.</span></pre>
<p>Unfortunately, the users <u>are</u> banned but the e-mails are
still pouring in and the mailbox growing... The sender doesn't get
an error message, I tried it out.<br>
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<p>From the command line, how can I have the incoming mails rejected
with an error message delivered to the sender?</p>
<p>I think I could chown the mbox to root but I guess this isn't
very graceful...</p>
<p>Thank you and best regards</p>
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