Comments 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.

By: etbe

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

There should be a result listed every minute.

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.

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!

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.

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.
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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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