I had a task to disable few email accounts previously created with vadduser on one of the virtual domains served by vpopmail runnning on top of qmail email server.
This is not the first time I have to this and everytime next time I have to do it I had to spend few minutes scratching through my memory for how I did it the last time.
Therefore this time I decided to blog here what is the exact way to disable email vopmail accounts. There are two reasons for that:
1. This could be helpful to somebody else online looking for a quick way to disable vpopmail email accounts without deleting the vpopmail email accounts with the vdeluser command.
2. It would be easier for me to just search through my blog and find how I achieved the vpopmail emails lock out in case I have to do it once again in the near or far future 🙂
So enough talks here is the command to execute to lock out (disable) an email address using vpopmail virtual domains.
debian-server:~# vmoduser -d -p -w -i username@domainname.com
The above command will disable accessability to the sample email address username@domainname.com for pop3, imap and webmail acess and will yet keep the email address existing on the vpopmail server and intact.
This is vital if you need to receive some further email on that email boxes, but you still want to disable access to the email and redirect the email content using for instance a .qmail mail redirect file.
