>Hi, I am testing my relays and notice (obviously!) that the cpu  goes
>high whilst scanning the emails.

already a bad sign.  you need to use PCRE: rather than REGEXP:.  see the 
pcre readme

>  My request is does anyone have a mass
>mailer so i can generate like 1000 emails  and send it to my relay at
>once?

Eric's suggestion is a good one, but those msgs will have no DATA, just 
envelope, mostly, so are not sufficient test of body scanning.  It is a 
good test of disk i/o.

>Or is there another way to see how the box would perform in a real life
>attack. I just need to prove that my machine spec (P3 450  128 ram)
>would be ok

if you want to be able to handle a serious attack, you will need 256 MB to 
be able to load up enough smtpd sessions.

Len


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