Re: [gentoo-server] creating a black hole for load testing mail servers

[Kerin Millar]

On 8/3/05, Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> wrote:
> At work, we are load testing a number of different mail servers.  I need to
> send large amounts of mail through the boxes as part of this.  To get rid
> of the mail, I'd like to have a Gentoo box running exim or another MTA on
> the end of the chain that does two very simple things:
>
> * Accepts any and all mail that is sent to it, regardless of domain,
>   recipient, etc.
> * Delivers all mail to /dev/null
>

Hi Kurt. The following page suggests that this task might reasonably
be accomplished with sendmail:

  http://www.helgrim.com/sendmail/stress-testing.html

Cheers,

--Kerin Millar

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