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



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