On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See above regarding Postage. And keep in mind that I've used Postal and > > Rabid for isolated testing in the past, but it (too) is not sufficient. > We > > need the real world exposure. > > Every test setup has its pros and cons. Unit test have a specific use, > so have isolated, reproducible functional or load tests. > > Nancy (solaris zone, that is ;-)) has the disadvantage that it > probably will reveil some bugs/problems which are not (easily) > reproducible because we don't control the test data/load. This would > make some people with proper knowledge of testing not call it a > 'test', more an 'experiment'. I think it's worthwhile anyway, but > you'd have to fall back to other tests after running into that certain > family of seldom problems. > > I seem to have a hard time pitching Postage (which I actually wrote > after - or better because of - working with Postal and Rabid), which > allows to use specialized message factory objects. Write a custom > factory for every specific mail which leads to a specific false > behavior inside the Server. This makes Postage a fit for any kind a > functional test you might (have to) come up with.
IMO there's a trust that's needed that some random spam monkey can't send a few wrong characters and cripple your mail server at 3am and ruin your saturday night. This arguably has to be created by surviving in a cruel unsheltered world. In terms of getting more useful data from that test install, I bet someone who knows unix pretty well could write a way to log all incoming port 25 traffic so we could get some real world attack vectors/invalid mime messages/random junk. -- Serge Knystautas Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com p. 301.656.5501 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
