Temporarily Pause/suspend Email Account?

[surfdean]

Is there a way to pause email accounts instead of deleting them? I want to stop spam coming to 1@**** without deleting all the other mail that I've already received.

 

Or maybe if I do delete it and then re-create the same account name later the old mail will still be there?

 

Or a way to just bounce mail from one account temporarily?

 

Or a filter that goes to ":fail: no such address here"?

 

thanks,

dean

[TCH-Andy]

You could set up a filter on that mail account, and delete all new email coming into it (in cpanel, mail section, filters)

[surfdean]

You could set up a filter on that mail account, and delete all new email coming into it (in cpanel, mail section, filters)

 

Now that was fast

 

I would rather bounce the email than just delete it. Can I do that? That way if I get legit mail, the person knows I'm bouncing email and will try another means to contact me, and won't just think I'm ignoring them

 

heh. I never use those emoticons...

[TCH-Andy]

I haven't tried filtering to :fail: to be honest - so I'm not sure (the simplest is to give it a try).

 

Alternatively - you could take a copy of that mail account (in the mail directory, from your root) and then delete that account. When you want to recreate it - just copy the mail folders back for that account.

[surfdean]

I haven't tried filtering to :fail: to be honest - so I'm not sure (the simplest is to give it a try).

 

Alternatively - you could take a copy of that mail account (in the mail directory, from your root) and then delete that account. When you want to recreate it - just copy the mail folders back for that account.

 

 

I'm trying it on my personal account for now-- although our main business acct is also getting spammed

 

It works.

 

Thanks for your encouragement.

dean

[TCH-Andy]

I'm glad you have it sorted Dean, and thanks for letting us know

[Mission]

Is there a way to pause email accounts instead of deleting them? I want to stop spam coming to 1@**** without deleting all the other mail that I've already received.

 

Or maybe if I do delete it and then re-create the same account name later the old mail will still be there?

 

Or a way to just bounce mail from one account temporarily?

 

Or a filter that goes to ":fail: no such address here"?

 

thanks,

dean

 

Man,

 

I just decided to come and ask this same question, but I've already forwarded most of the mail to another account now. I should have come out here and asked the question first.

 

Oh well, I'll try the :fail: now. Thanks.

[Mission]

Man,

 

I just decided to come and ask this same question, but I've already forwarded most of the mail to another account now. I should have come out here and asked the question first.

 

Oh well, I'll try the :fail: now. Thanks.

 

Oh-oh. The mail isn't being delivered to my inbox, but I'm also not getting a bounce message, either. What am I doing wrong? I put the email addie that I wanted to bounce as part of the header that the filter should look for. Then I put :fail: for what I wanted done when that email addie is found in the header. I'm not getting anymore spam, but I'm not getting a bounce message when I send email to that addie, either.

[TCH-Bruce]

:fail: does not send a bounce it just silently dies I believe.

 

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[Mission]

:fail: does not send a bounce it just silently dies I believe.

 

Verified in this post.

 

Oh, ok. Thanks, Bruce.