Question Restricted SMTP Usage

[Anoop]

1. How to suspend smtp services for selected users. Or i need to suspend all users smtp clients and need to enable only selected users for smtp services.

 

[Nik G]

could you please a little bit explain your case?

you have some domain hosted at Plesk and this domain has enabled mail service and there are some mailboxes that are created at this domain.
And you need to disable an ability to send email from all those mailboxes except some of them (inside this domain).

if yes - unfortunately there's no such functionality in Plesk.

 

[eliamarsura]

You can set to 0 the limit of outgoing emails for the mailbox

 

[Anoop]

How to change this value of an account via ssh or

 

[eliamarsura]

plesk bin mail --update JohnDoe@example.com -outgoing-messages-mbox-limit 0

You can find more examples here:

mail: Mail Accounts

The mail utility is used to manage domain mail service and mail names (email accounts) through CLI. By using this uti...

docs.plesk.com

 

[Anoop]

Its only email based. how to deactivate it account based via terminal

 

[eliamarsura]

Did you see the link that I send you? mail: Mail Accounts
Here you can see al the possibilities

If there's no way with plesk you can use while:

plesk bin mail -l | grep "Mail name" | grep "example.com" | awk '{print $3}' | while read a; do plesk bin mail --update $a -outgoing-messages-mbox-limit 0; done

Just change "example.com" with your domain name

This will find all email accounts of a domain and for each one will put the outgoing limit to zero