Paul Cockings: > This isn't strictly a postfix topic, but this is the best place I know > to find clever people :-) > > I'm trying to find a script (sh,bash, perl) that will create a vast > number (100K?) of test emails and store in maildir format. > I'm trying to test my postfix/dovecot installation to find some of its > limits - ie what happens with a 100K of emails and a POP3 client. > > I guess I need to randomize the size of the mails, the subject, body to > help create a more realistic test, but something very crude and simple > would be a interesting point to start with (might be interesting to run > this vs.Mbox) > > Does any have anything I could use, or any pointers? (i'm not much of a > coder but willing to give it a go)
You could use an existing mbox-to-maildir tool to split a bunch of mbox files. For example, files with mailing list traffic. Weekly mailing list archives in mbox format are made available at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2009/freebsd-questions/ (find the links called "Archive", then write a script that automatically sucks in a bunch of those files). I am sure there are other sites as well. Wietse
