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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