Comments 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?

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

By: piesek leszek

piesek leszek — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:49:35 +0000

Good job my friend. Thx for this great tool!

By: vignesh

vignesh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:07:51 +0000

Hi Russell,

I just tested out Postal 0.70 which I installed using the debian repository. It is working very well. I still have to start using all the features of Postal but thought that I should thank you before that. :). Thanks a lot for writing such a wonderful tool. I will soon try to contribute to it myself.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Vignesh

By: Lars Nordin

Lars Nordin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:53:33 +0000

Here is a patch to rabid that I sent Russell a while back, not fully vetted but works for me.
====================
I ran into a problem with rabid trying to log into pop with local name logins. Instead of the second field being sent as the password, the domain of the address was being sent instead.
I changed userlist.ccp and I got it working but I having really gone thru the logic to make sure it all correct.

lars@qadev:postal-0.70 diff -c userlist.cpp.orig userlist.cpp
*** userlist.cpp.orig Tue Jun 10 11:56:28 2008
— userlist.cpp Tue Jun 10 12:10:00 2008
***************
*** 34,44 ****
printf(“Need a password for \”%s\”.”, buf);
continue;
}
if(stripDom)
strtok(buf, “@”);
m_users->push_back(buf);
- if(usePass)
- m_passwords->push_back(buf + strlen(buf) + 1);
if(strlen(buf) > m_maxNameLen)
m_maxNameLen = strlen(buf);
}
— 34,44 —-
printf(“Need a password for \”%s\”.”, buf);
continue;
}
+ if(usePass)
+ m_passwords->push_back(buf + strlen(buf) + 1);
if(stripDom)
strtok(buf, “@”);
m_users->push_back(buf);
if(strlen(buf) > m_maxNameLen)
m_maxNameLen = strlen(buf);
}

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By: Brais

Brais — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:34:04 +0000

Hi Russell,

I’m playing with Postal and Rabid, using the Debian Package on Lenny a instalation and i have a question. Can be disabled de MD5 verification without recompilation?
And i’m experiencing and issue, Rabid doesn’t print the workload values

Thx!
Congratulations for this great tool!

By: Amin

Amin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:45:47 +0000

I’m having the same issue on Fedora 8. Does anybody know how to resolve it?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:29:46 +0000

hi, Russell,
i can’t compile postal0.7.0&0.6.5 on RHEL5U3, which have same error.

postal.cpp: In function ‘int gcry_pthread_mutex_init(void**)’:
postal.cpp:16: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘pthread_mutex_t*’
postal.cpp: In function ‘int gcry_pthread_mutex_destroy(void**)’:
postal.cpp:16: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘pthread_mutex_t*’
postal.cpp: In function ‘int gcry_pthread_mutex_lock(void**)’:
postal.cpp:16: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘pthread_mutex_t*’
postal.cpp: In function ‘int gcry_pthread_mutex_unlock(void**)’:
postal.cpp:16: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘pthread_mutex_t*’
postal.cpp: At global scope:
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::read’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::write’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::select’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::waitpid’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::accept’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::connect’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::sendmsg’
postal.cpp:16: warning: missing initializer for member ‘gcry_thread_cbs::recvmsg’
make: *** [postal] Error 1

How to resolve it? Thanks!

By: ml

ml — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:55:24 +0000

that would be grat to know without installing XX MTAs

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:12 +0000

Hi Russell,

Do you have any clues yet on what the best performing SMTP servers are?

Thx,
Jeroen