Auto mail bouncer for testing

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: Auto mail bouncer for testing
From: Edward Dekkers <edward at tdcs.com.au>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 02/09/2007 04:20 PM

> Quite often, my customers want to test their mail set-ups on-site. Many 
> of them do not want to simply send a message to themselves. If they have 
> their own mail server, this is not a real test, and if they don't it 
> only proves their ISP's mail server is returning their mail. Most want 
> the mail to travel a few hops and then come back.
> 
> Is it possible to set up a specific user, or maybe get it to react on a 
> certain subject line (or both) to set up sendmail (procmail?) to send a 
> message back to an originating address for testing?
> 
> For example, I'm on site and want to test e-mail.
> 
> I send a message on the customer's PC on site to mailtest at mydomain.com 
> with subject "MAILTEST", and based on the e-mail coming in to my mail 
> server, have the server check for one or both of those conditions (via 
> procmail?), then send and e-mail back to the originating address back 
> say for example "This is the mail server at mydomain.com. You have 
> requested a mail test. The test was successful. Here is a copy of the 
> mail you have sent:"
> 
> etc. etc. etc.
> 
> Or is somebody doing this already with an easy to remember URL?
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
> 
> BTW. procmail looks scary. I guess if I have to I have to but some 
> suggested reading that I can understand would be appreciated.
> 
> 

The easiest way to do this is setup a free email account on any of the 
web centered email systems (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, netscape...etc) and 
have it send the test message and then reply to it. Then send a message 
to it and then reply back to your internal account.
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