Stress testing Cyrus + postfix

[Jim Norton]

Quoting Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>:

> Anyone knows any scripts for stress testing an email system I just
> brought up??
>
> Would appreciate pointers to some if possible.
>

I wrote a little Perl script for stress testing an email system. It's 
very simple minded. I just takes an 'addresses' file which contains a 
list of your email recipients and a 'mail.txt' file which contains the 
text of the body of the emails that will be sent.

The script just continuously sends everybody in the 'addresses' an 
email with the contents of 'mail.txt' in a loop until you do a CTRL-C 
to stop the script.

The file mail.pl contains a variable named $Time that represents how 
long the program delays before sending the next email. The comment in 
the script is wrong about this variable. $Time is expressed in seconds. 
As written the script delays  200 milliseconds between each mail that 
is sent.

The script does require the following perl modules: Mail::Send and 
Mail::Mailer.

Here is a link to get the tar file:  
ftp://ftp.midvalleyhosting.com/pub/stresser.tar


Hope this helps.




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