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disable email receiving on single account

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:41 am
by leocor
A user changed company. So I kept his account and enabled an auto-reply asking to change their email reference.
After 3 months people is still sending email to this account.

So I'd like to disable it from receiving emails.

I must keep it alive as some users are accessing some shared folders on it.

I have no clues on doing it.

I just saw that in distribution lists there's a checkbox "can receive emails" but there's not in single accounts.
Thanks

disable email receiving on single account

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:53 am
by odeleon
OR you could set the account status to closed.


From the admin guide:
"Closed. When a mailbox status is closed, the login is disabled, and

messages are bounced. This status is used to soft-delete an account

before deleting the account from the server. A closed account does not

change the account license."
I haven't tried it, but I suppose this wouldn't block other users from accessing the shared folders.
...also, you could just simply rename the account. I believe incoming email will bounce but the shared folders will remain since Zimbra does the internal reference by zimbraID values and not email addresses.

disable email receiving on single account

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:16 am
by leocor
I tried, but if I disable or close or whatever is not active, I can't access shared folders.
So it seems that renaming the account might be a better option.

disable email receiving on single account

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:55 am
by backpacker77
[quote user="leocor"]I tried, but if I disable or close or whatever is not active, I can't access shared folders.
So it seems that renaming the account might be a better option.[/QUOTE]
Hi,
I have the same issue as yours Leocor.

Is your solution still the better thing to do ? Thank you for your help.

Re: disable email receiving on single account

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:55 pm
by milauria
Any way to achieve this other than renaming the account to something impossible to guess from external ?

Many thanks for any suggestio