Re: [exim] "unit tests" for an exim installation/configurati…

Hi Jim,
thanks for your reply

On 12/06/2010 10:11 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Quoting Sandro Tosi (from 07/12/10 05:07):
>> So, how are you testing your configuration when developing that "what
>> was fixed before is not broken due to new changes" and "what's required
>> to works is working"? how do you ensure your configuration/installation
>> works when you deploy it in
>
> Most of my tests are based around variations of swaks and netcat -- I
> have a set of variations of To:, From:, TLS, Authed, not Authed,
> carrying spam (GTUBE), carrying malware (EICAR), too big, from
> blacklisted IP, from whitelisted IP, and so on (use 'nc -s' to set the
> source address for a connection).
>
> This doesn't check everything, but returns either 'accepted' or
> 'rejected' early. So one command-line invocation kicks off a couple of
> dozen checks.
>
> Deeper tests to make sure messages are actually delivered are just shell
> scripts that use swaks to send an acceptable message (with a UUID in the
> subject, for example), wait a few moments, then dive into the relevant
> maildir looking for that UUID to be on the disk. Then check that it can
> be retrieved by IMAPS :-) Some of these are suitable for end-to-end
> testing from Nagios or similar.

Thanks for your suggestions, I particularly like swaks :)

Cheers,
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