Test Environment

[Lee Hetherington]

Peter Russell wrote:
> 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
>>
No worries Pete, if you need anything give me a yell. Certainly making 
an alias on the test server which goes to /dev/null should stop it being 
delivered.

Cheers,

Lee