Oops. Pretty cool, that recursion thing. ;)

By the looks of the documentation (when you can find it), tapping should
always be done to a different domain, given that tap checks the sending and
recipient address.

I updated the wiki with a link to inter7's documentation for tap.

Jason P wrote:
> I only ever tried doing it that way once, a year or two ago, and the problem
> was that it would start tapping the taps of the taps of the taps, creating
> an endless loop of email logs.  A few test messages managed to increase to
> something like 35,000 after a few weeks (it was a non-production system, and
> I hadn't been paying attention to it...).  I never even looked into seeing
> if there was a way to make that work, because a new (invalid)
> "logs.mydomain.com" domain took care of the problem and was easy to set up.
> 
> -Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric "Shubes" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Using qmail tap
> 
> Jake Vickers wrote:
>> James F. Jarrett wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>   
>> I don't think the domain has to physically exist in the real world;
>> create a fake one, and add it's entry in /etc/hosts just to be sure,
>> then just tap the messages to there. Then throw together quick script to
>> combine all the messages together into a text file at the end of the
> night.
>> I personally do not use tap (no need, yet), so there may be a better way.
>>
> Couldn't you simply use an archive account in the existing domain?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Then you could just leave them there. A cron job could delete them after a
> period of time ('find' command works nice for this).

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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