From: Simon Waters (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 03:19:32 EST
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 20:09, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
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> I've built a new Postfix SMTP server for an ISP. We would
> like to stress test it by hitting it pretty hard with email, both
> legitimate and also spam. Can anybody recommend the ideal way to do
> this? I searched online for SMTP traffic generators, and I know that
> Postfix has a smtp-source program. But ideally, I'd like something
> that can pull from a body of mail (perhaps mbox files) and throw that
> mail at the new server, to see how it handles the load. Any advice?
> BTW, the server is running on Solaris 8.
I did a lot of looking for this once, and ended up still using smtp-source.
Email is email, Postfix doesn't really care about content.
If you've put content filters in, then that is a separate issue, but I dare
say it is easy enough to script, and you'll soon see if a queue is building
up.
Postfix maybe limited by committing writes to disk, this can be tested by
other tools (bonnie++), to allow you to tell if the filesystems you are
sticking queues, and delivered email to, are running anywhere near the
performance that they ought to.
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