Re: Slightly OT: smtp-benchmark

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

My experience is that the sink from postfix is just dandy and
that M-Stone from the Mozilla Project is an outstanding
mailblaster with stats and so forth.

It's not clearly documented, but when you need 3 machines to
destroy a mail server (and optionally hit it with POP/IMAP)
that's the tool to use.

Also, there's a recent discussion on a benchmark tool of
someones on news:comp.mail.sendmail

Ideally, you want multiple processes each threading (I've found
limits in the number of threads/process that can actually function).

If there are tools out there that do what you want, or come close,
then my view is that it's better to improve existing wheels
and move forward rather than start a wheel design comittee again.

Quoting Toni Mueller (openbsd-misc_(_at_)_oeko_(_dot_)_net):
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:49:20PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > smtp-benchmark consists of two programs, smtpsend and smtpsink.
> > Whereas smtpsend is used to send generated e-mail messages using SMTP
> > to a mail transfer agent, smtpsink is designed to dispose of received
> > messages as quick as possible.
> 
> similar problems should be solved by the following programs which
> you might want to compare to:
> 
>   http://www.coker.com.au/postal/
> 
> I didn't test these programs myself, but maybe it helps you.