MailScanner load testing advice

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Pete [mailto:pete at eatathome.com.au]
>Envoyé : 31 mars, 2004 20:43
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : MailScanner load testing advice
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>My colleague has written a small PHP script that will send a bunch of
>messages to my mailscanner machine. I was going to try and see how many
>i can send it before it starts complaining (eg 1000s, 10000s 1000000s
>etc) since my mailscanner machine and other test machine are 
>both on the
>same lan.
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>I have used the details from this test - but i wonder how stressful it
>is on MailScanner recieving the same email over and over ? as 
>long as it
>triggers spam ruiles then its providing some stress?
>http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/spam/unkillable.txt
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>BUT i need to set up the output to go nowhere - how do i send a legit
>email/spam, let it get scanned and placed back in the postfix incoming
>queue, but not delivered, just deleted? I am using the single postfix
>and freebsd. If there a way, if i specificied an alias pointed at
>dev/null in the aliases file and emailed alias at localhost ? What is the
>best way to do this?

I think this is the best way.  Or if it is a test server, you can put both spam actions and high scoring spam actions to delete or store, but no deliver.
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>Thanks
>Pete
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