Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] creating a black hole for load testing mail servers
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:56:16
Message-Id: 20050803175407.GF13983@mail.lieber.org
1 At work, we are load testing a number of different mail servers. I need to
2 send large amounts of mail through the boxes as part of this. To get rid
3 of the mail, I'd like to have a Gentoo box running exim or another MTA on
4 the end of the chain that does two very simple things:
5
6 * Accepts any and all mail that is sent to it, regardless of domain,
7 recipient, etc.
8 * Delivers all mail to /dev/null
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10 This needs to happen as fast as possible. Ideally, I'd like to prevent the
11 mail from ever touching the disk for speed reasons, but if that's not
12 possible through the MTA, I can accomplish the same thing by putting the
13 spool on a RAM disk.
14
15 Is this easy enough to set up? Any sample configuration files I can crib
16 from?
17
18 Thanks.
19
20 --kurt
21
22 P.S. if there's another way of accomplishing the same thing, please let me
23 know. It is important, however, that the black hole actually have an SMTP
24 conversation with the sending server. I can't just route all traffic to
25 port 25 to /dev/null.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-server] creating a black hole for load testing mail servers Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-server] creating a black hole for load testing mail servers kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-server] creating a black hole for load testing mail servers Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>