Test Environment

[Lee Hetherington]

Peter Russell wrote:
> Hi there, i really want to assist with testing. I have a test server 
> setup, but now how to test with mail. I cannot use forward any legit 
> mail to it. I was thinking of forwarding high scoring spam to it from 
> my production environment.
>
> What do others do for testing without interfering with legit mail?
>
> Regards
> Pete
Currently I run the beta on production machines as its never caused me a 
problem so far.  But previously as I use postfix, I used the always_bcc 
option on the production boxes to bcc everything to an alias on a test 
server. This passed through mailscanner and the such then passed to an 
alias which sends the messages to /dev/null.  I use the mailwatch 
logging so it was easy to see what mailscanner is doing as well as 
reading the traditional syslog output.

Lee