Julian Mehnle:
> Dear Postfix community,
>
> I'm developing a new milter and I need to benchmark it when plugged
> into Postfix. What are my best options for generating an SMTP
> stream of messages directed at a single Postfix instance at rates
> on the order of hundreds per second, and measuring SMTP acceptance
> rates and SMTP response latency? I can run processes on multiple
> machines if necessary, but the more efficient the better.
>
> I saw the smtp-source tool <http://www.postfix.org/smtp-source.1.html>,
> but I'm not sure I can tune it to certain output rates and make
> it take acceptance rate and latency measurements.
Try it and see how fast it goes with and without your Milter.
> Are there any other tools people use to benchmark their Postfix
> setups or, more specifically, milters?
Have you tried "smtp benchmark" as a search engine query? I have
not used any of the programs out there.
Wietse
