Definition
Current status of the mail domain. Can be one of the following values: active, inactive, deleted, hold, or overquota. This attribute is the mail
service domain status. Missing value implies status is active.
An illegal value is treated as inactive.
The following table lists the status values:
Table 3–13 Status Values
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Value
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Description
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active
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Mail service is marked as active for all users in this domain and all
users in the domain that are marked active (see inetUserStatus
and mailUserStatus for more information). However, any restrictions specified
in mailAllowedServiceAccess and mailDomainAllowedServiceAccess still
apply.
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inactive
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Mail service for all users in the domain is marked inactive. All user
login attempts are rejected and messages sent to them get transient failure
messages.
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disabled
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Mail service for all users in the domain is disabled. All user login
attempts are rejected and messages sent to users in this domain result in
a permanent failure returned top the sending MTA with text specified by the ERROR_TEST_DISABLED_USERMTA option. If the option is not set, one
of the following messages will be used: "user disabled; cannot receive new
mail" or “group disabled; cannot receive new mail” (depending
on whether it is a user or a group).
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deleted
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Mail domain is marked as deleted and will be removed during cleanup
by the purge utility after the grace period is over. Mailboxes and user’s
mail service object classes are included in cleanup.
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hold
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Messages sent to all users in the domain are redirected to the hold
channel. This value is typically used when users in the domain are being moved
from one server to another without having to bounce messages back to the sender
during the move. In this state, mailboxes can be moved without fear of any
lost messages as all incoming messages are sent to the hold channel. Once
the move is complete and the state has been changed from hold to active the
messages are drained from the hold channel and sent to the MTA's where the
user mailboxes now reside.
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overquota
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The MTA will not accept new messages for any users in the domain until
this value is changed back to active.
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unused
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Specifies that the MTA will ignore this domain. For this domain no email
administrative authority is to be assumed. This attribute is used when a domain
entry is not using messaging, but is using other applications.
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There are four status attributes that mail services look at and which
are evaluated in this order: inetDomainStatus, mailDomainStatus, inetUserStatus, and mailUserStatus.
The rule is: the first of these attributes that is set to something other
than active takes precedence over all the others.
The MTA option that overrides this attribute’s values is LDAP_DOMAIN_ATTR_STATUS. The LDAP_DOMAIN_ATTR_STATUS option does not
affect the message store or Delegated Administrator commadmin utility,
which only recognize and use the current value of mailDomainStatus.
