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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
