Test Environment

[Peter Russell]

Thanks Lee, this sounds the easiest - i use Postfix too, but wanted to 
learn Exim and do beta testing - I think i give this a try and just put 
a lot of effort into making sure the mail isnt delivered.

many thanks
Pete

Lee Hetherington wrote:
> 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
>