Expiration of an email account

Question

Hello
is it possible to expire an email account at a definite date?
we are running the following version of messaging server;
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)
libimta.so 6.2-6.01 (built 11:20:35, Apr 3 2006)
SunOS mailserv 5.9 Generic_118558-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
what we would like is that some accounts become inactive at a certain date. is that possible?
i know that imsexpire would expire messages but what about inboxes?
thank you very much.
Mario G.

Answer 1

mario_garcia wrote:
is it possible to expire an email account at a definite date? Please clarify what you mean by "expire".
Do you want to stop new emails from being delivered and/or stop a user from accessing their emails and/or delete the existing emails?
what we would like is that some accounts become inactive at a certain date. is that possible?There is no inbuilt Messaging Server mechanism to trigger such activity. Such functionality is usually left up to the provisioning software of an organisation e.g. when an employee leaves their LDAP account is removed which would stop new emails being delivered and user access.
i know that imsexpire would expire messages but what about inboxes? I'm not sure how imexpire is relevant to your request. The imexpire process has no knowledge about the current status of an account.
Regards,
Shane.