automated mail server stress testing?

[Greg Matthews]

> Chris Yuzik wrote:
>> Just wondering if there are any programs/scripts/whatever that can put 
>> an artificial high load on our new server so we can see if anything 
>> breaks *before* we start moving real users to this new box.

set up a real mail relay exactly as your production system and give it a 
high MX (low priority) in the DNS. We have one like this and it attracts 
as much junk as it can process and then some!

As Julian says, you then send everything to /dev/null

G

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