In article <22edc.19741$So1.2545@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com >,
corrlens <askme@later.com> wrote:
>OS: unix 5.0.5
>
>How Can I get rid of messages waiting on the mail spooler (q.local) for
>users that have a valid login but they were retired and now the description
>for those logins is '*RETIRED' ? I guess the unix accepts the emails for
>those users because they exist on the /etc/passwd file but because they are
>retired then the unix won't deliver them .

There isn't a good solution to this. The ability to retire a user is little
used. You can alias those users to a non-existant user name, but then each
time a message for such a user is received, in addition to being rejected a
warning will be sent to the mail support addr warning about the bad alias.
An MMDF update is in the works which among other things includes a feature that
allows you to use a magic alias that causes mail to an address to be rejected
*without* causing a warning to be sent to the support addr.

John
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