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Title: test list
Post by: dbowen1 on April 03, 2006, 12:42:46 pm

Dean,

During some tech support you did for me a while ago you imported a list of test addresses such as test1@lmhost2.com, test2@lmhost2.com, etc. There are about 10,000 of these addresses and you mentioned that messages sent to these are just silently discarded by your server.

My question is, can I still use this list for testing and will your server still discard these as you described? (I don't want to hammer your server unnecessarily)

Thanks,
Dan

Title: test list
Post by: DW on April 03, 2006, 10:37:33 pm

I had removed some of the entries and only 0-999 were active.  I have set it up to now cover 0-11000.  You can email this list but try not to send more than a few thousand at a time, please. :)

Regards, DW

Title: test list
Post by: mr.trevor on April 04, 2006, 11:45:04 am

I may be using my straw brain today but I am intrigued as to how you set up a few thousand e-mail addresses with such ease.
It takes me a couple of minutes to set one up... :o

Title: test list
Post by: dbowen1 on April 04, 2006, 11:50:10 am

Quote from: "mr.trevor"

I may be using my straw brain today but I am intrigued as to how you set up a few thousand e-mail addresses with such ease.
It takes me a couple of minutes to set one up... :o

I could be wrong, but my guess is that the email addresses don't actually exist and the server is set up to discard emails to addresses that don't exist.

Title: test list
Post by: mr.trevor on April 04, 2006, 11:59:34 am

I must admit that I am not too clear about this but I was thinking that if addresses don't actually exist then the mail would be bounced.

Title: test list
Post by: DW on April 04, 2006, 02:54:21 pm

I did it with email aliases. I created an alias for each of the addresses and pipe the email to |/bin/true, essentially discarding it.   With qmail, used on my server, you need a new file for each alias.

I used a PHP script via SSH shell in the /var/qmail/mailnames/lmhost2.com folder, where aliases are created:

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#!/usr/bin/php

<?phpfor($i=0;$i<=11000;$i++){ exec("echo \"|/bin/true\" > .qmail-test$i");}?>

Of course, hard drive access becomes an issue with several thousand files in a folder and this may not be the best way to do it.  I think .procmailrc, for example, could achieve this and more (ie. discard test*@lmhost2.com) in just a few lines.  I should probably look into .procmailrc for qmail... :)

Regards