While this isn't the "nicest" method of getting a server hammered, you can
forge a bunch of emails with from and reply-to addresses of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and then use some spamming software to mail out a
few hundred thousand messages. Within minutes you'll get 10's or hundreds of
mail servers bouncing the undeliverable messages back to your server.
I've never had to do this, I've had the help of a spammer or two, I just got
to tune qmail while the server was getting hammered. With my setup, I can
handle about 250 simultanous connections per box. :-)
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sumith Ail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Torture test Vpopmail + Qmail
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have set up Qmail + tcpserver + vpopmail on our RH
> 6.2 p3 box. We'd like to torture test it. Is there
> anything more than sending bulk email from a group
> mail software that we can do.
>
> Please give me suggestions as to how can we we
> continously hit the server with a lot of mails.
>
> Regards
> Sumith
>
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