You don't need to own another domain. Just setup a dummy domain like archive.com on the server and have all the mail tapped to it. Since the domain archive.com is on the server locally it'll never look elsewhere outside the server.
-----Original Message----- From: James F. Jarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:28 AM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Using qmail tap Yeah, I know that, but I still have to create a second domain (that we have to own) and make sure the mail gets routed to it etc. While not terribly difficult It adds a lot of mail handling, and seems that it would be better just to dump it to a text file an forget about it. James On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:25 -0500, Jake Vickers wrote: > James F. Jarrett wrote: > > I have been told by our administrative staff that they want me to start > > saving all e-mails sent / received for a period of time (the duration to > > keep this data is still up in the air). > > > > I know that tap can forward any / all e-mail to *ANOTHER* email address > > in another domain, and I could setup a second domain on the toaster to > > handle receiption of this mail, but it seems inefficient. Is there a > > way to simply have tap store all this mail to a local text file? > > > > I could then have cron job that works like a log package that creates a > > new file every day and then can regularly backup those files to offline > > storage. > > > QMT uses the Maildir format, so each email is already in a text file > format. When tap sends a copy to a new email address, in that directory > (/home/vpopmail/domains/newdomain/newuser/Maildir/new/) it creates a > text file with the message stamp. You can then do whatever you want with > it in theory. > Hope that helps some. -- James F. Jarrett Information Systems Associate Charlotte Country Day School --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
