Am Donnerstag, den 23.10.2014, 09:42 -0400 schrieb Wietse Venema:
> Markus Benning:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i'm using a lot of automated tests to test my postfix configuration.
> > The XCLIENT command is very handy for such checks.
> > I thought about adding a STRESS parameter to the command to be
> > able to also write test plans to test under-stress-behavior.
>
> It cannot work. Postfix configuration parameters are expanded BEFORE
> Postfix initializes the SMTP protocol engine. There is an obvious
> chicken-and-egg problem if it were to do this the other way around.
>
> Wietse
I already guessed that this may be the case.
But anyways, thank you for your advise.
I'll look into this again tomorrow.
May be I can just add a seperate smtpd process with hardcoded stress=yes
on a private port.
Markus
