On 18 Mar 2004 at 11:42, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I looked up the documentation for SERVE and could NOT find anything
> about DROP.
>
> Clues?

ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/documents/relnotes/v18e-2003a.relnotes

Only available with the 2003a level set, which was not generally
released (it was released for Maestro customers, hence is only
available for Windows and Linux). It will be available for all
platforms in the 2004a level set.


> It is now possible to serve off a problem user and "drop" further messages
> coming from that user on the floor rather than have them bounced to the
> postmaster with the message stating that mail has been received from a
> user who has been served off.
>
> Simply append the argument "DROP" to the end of a SERVE OFF command, for
> instance:
>
> SERVE userid@host OFF DROP
>
> The QUIET modifier can also be prepended, as before:
>
> QUIET SERVE userid@host OFF DROP
>
> The response from LISTSERV will indicate that further messages from the
> user in question will be dropped silently:
>
> [log in to unmask] has been permanently served out. Access can be restored
> only by privileged users. Incoming messages  from [log in to unmask] will be
> dropped silently.

Francoise