[Tutor] mail server stress

[lonetwin]

Hey dman

--- dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:28:15AM -0700, lonetwin
> wrote:
> | Hi all you good people,
> |  One quick question, does anyone know about a mail
> | server stress/load test application/module written
> | in
> 
> I don't know of any (written in any language).

  Well there are quite a few such applications, but
most of them are commercial, written in c/c++. of
these a number of them are windows applications. A
quick search at freshmeat [keyword 'stress'] served up
smpop, which looks pretty good, maybe I'll write
something like that up in python (smpop's written in
C) also a google search led me to Netscape's Mailstone
and the mozzila equivalent mstone, but those were for
stressing the Netscape Messaging server. I have yet to
look at those....today 'also' is gonna be a nice long
day :)

> | python ?? This seems like just the thing that is
> | likely to be written in python, well if there
> | isn't
> | any helpful tips/comments on what I should be
> | thinking
> | if I decide to write something of my own ???
> 
> I think you should get several machines and have
> each of them try
> sending mail messages as fast as they can at the
> same time.  Also vary
> the messages from being proper to being incorrect in
> various ways.
> Also try messing up the SMTP communication to see
> how the server
> handles it if something went wrong during a
> real-world transfer.
> 
> -D

Hey thanx try that too ....

Peace
Steve

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