Say we're working on some modifications to our mailing list management
system, and we'd like to find out if the modifications will hold up
when used on lists with a large number of subscribers. Is there any
way to send a test message to thousands of subscribers (or more),
who would typically be distributed over hundreds of SMTP servers?
I once got an email addressed to the "nobody" user at my domain with a
polite explanatory note that they were doing testing. It seemed
reasonable to me, but I don't know how others took to it.
Obviously, you could send a barrage of messages to the same user on your
own systems (sendmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
etc.), but that doesn't simulate issues related to a large scale SMTP
distribution over various networks. Keep in mind that I'm trying to
test this before trying it out on a production list.
Omar
