On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:46:05PM -0500 or thereabouts, kashani wrote:
> This might be what you're looking for.
> http://www.wiredfool.com/2002/06/11/howToBlackholeEmailServer

Thanks -- I'll check it out.

> However, unless you have a very specific application raw throughput is 
> rarely going to tell you much about how well your mail server will 
> perform. Queue sizes, bounce handling, slow connections, content 
> filtering, number of connections, quality of the recieving or sending 
> mail server, ability to reuse a connection, etc are usually going to 
> have a greater impact on real world performance.

Agreed -- the boxes we're testing are actually email appliances, with all
sorts of content filtering, spam/virus filtering, etc. in place.  We have a
fairly good QA environment set up to replicate what we tend to see in
production -- the only piece lacking is the digital bit bucket.

Thanks for the responses so far.

--kurt

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