Email account disable incoming

[kpop1]

Hi
I have hestiacp managing email for a few domains.
Is it possible to temporarily disable receipt of emails for a particular account on some domain?

For example, I want emails received for [email protected] to not be accepted and bounced to the sender with the standard “No such account” message.

Many thanks,
K

[sahsanu]

Hi @kpop1,

No, Hestia doesn’t support that feature. You can suspend the mail account so that account won’t be able to logon but mails for that account will be accepted.

[kpop1]

Thanks for your reply.
So is it not possible to configure exim4 to bounce a particular recipient address?

So the only option is to delete the account completely?

[sahsanu]

@kpop1

So is it not possible to configure exim4 to bounce a particular recipient address?

Yes, it is possible but not using Hestia Control Panel, you must modify exim4 conf and add the accounts manually to a file.

You can create a file like /etc/exim4/reject_rcpts and include there the mail address you want to reject, like [email protected] (one email address per line).

Then edit exim4 conf file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and add this to acl_check_rcpt section:

Note: you can change the message but Unrouteable address is the text that Exim shows when the recipient address is not available.

  deny    message       = Unrouteable address
          recipients    = /etc/exim4/reject_rcpts

It should look like this:

acl_check_rcpt:
  accept  hosts         = :

  deny    message       = Unrouteable address
          recipients    = /etc/exim4/reject_rcpts

# Limit per email account for SMTP auhenticated users
  deny    message       = Email account $authenticated_id is sending too many emails - rate overlimit = $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period

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Restart exim4 and test it.

systemctl restart exim4