MailScanner load testing advice

[Julian Field]

At 14:13 01/04/2004, you wrote:
>Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
>Buggar! It doesnt seem like it - they are in the format of "message"
>'attachmentname'

Are you quarantining them as whole messages (Quarantine Entire Message if I
remember rightly) or just saving the attachments and nothing else?

I use the "Archive Mail" feature to collect an archive of raw mail for a
few days and use that as a test suite.


>Maybe i forget the emails, and search the quaratnien directories and send
>all the virus and zip attachments ? I could do that with the below command
>type?
>
>Also found this script, but its all getting a bit complicated i think.
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=postcat+script&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=au85f7%242c2q%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1
>
>
>>>>>I use Postfix, so hopefully this wont matter all that much?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It works on raw queue files, so you will have to rewrite it a bit.
>>>>Using "postcat" and analysing the output may be a fair way to convert
>>>>this to Postfix. You could do the conversion as a one-off batch job and
>>>>then work from the postcat output files.
>>>
>>>Ok i have no chance of re writing anything that complex - can anyone
>>>think of a simpler method? Some form of command?
>>>
>>>I really interested in sending all the stored viruses and zip files and
>>>messages in the quarantine....like HEAPS of them, rather than perfected
>>>formed emails etc
>>>
>>>Can anyone suggest a variation of this type of thing? or is complex
>>>script the only option?
>>>
>>>find /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/*/*/* | cat * | mail -s name at domain
>>
>>
>>Do you have them stored as raw queue files?
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