Comments for Russell Coker's Documents

Comment on How to Debug SMTP with TLS(SSL) and AUTH by Jr. TLS admin

Jr. TLS admin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:04:42 +0000

This artical saved my but! Thanks you guys… Go linux!

Comment on Postal by Rick

Rick — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:56:35 +0000

Postal on BSD seems pretty solid – esp. for hammering Exchange boxen, but rabid seems to be running in imap mode by default and won’t do pop – causing authentication errors.

Comment on Postal by etbe

etbe — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:43:48 +0000

There should be a result listed every minute.

Comment on Postal by lagerhyde

lagerhyde — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:12:56 +0000

I tried to run rabid with some option. But, no result comes up on my screen.
How long does it take to see result? I heard the result comes up every 1 minutes.

I execute rabid like this.

# rabid -r 5 -p 1 -c 5 localhost user-list.filname

There are only 3 user’s name in user-list.filname file.

Comment on Postal by andreav

andreav — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:12:38 +0000

Hi Russell,
congratulations for your work.
When it will exit the new version 1.0?
I have a great need to do a test on an imap server with rabid ….
Great work!

Comment on Postal by poker

poker — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:37:22 +0000

Very interesting tool. I was looking for it and then I reach this page. Great work !

Erl.

Comment on Benchmarking Mail Relays and Forwarders by Icann

Icann — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:20:41 +0000

his means outbound smart host gateway systems, list servers, and forwarding services.

Comment on Postal by etbe

etbe — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:23:54 +0000

vinaya: Well the header already has a Date: field, so I guess all that’s needed is to have BHM parse it and record the data.

Also I’m thinking of putting a hash of the message in the X-Postal header so that BHM (or other tools) can parse it. What do you think?

Comment on Postal by vinaya

vinaya — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:27:42 +0000

Hi Russell,
Thanks for the smtp load tool. I can understand that this tool can be used to generate the required throughput on the mail server. But is there a way to measure the latency for mail relays (i.e the time it from when the message was sent by postal to the time when it was recieved by BHM). One way i can think of this is to stamp the epoch time onto a header in postal and them when the BHM receives the mail, parse for that header and generate the latency time, before sinking it.
do you think this can be done as an enhancement for the tool?
thanks
_vinaya

Comment on MySQL Cheat Sheet by Roger

Roger — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:06:48 +0000

Thanks Russell
You explain quickly, succinctly and I appreciate the easy to grasp explanations.
Roger