From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hu7HH-0005sZ-VG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:34:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l51DXIBb005409; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:33:18 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l51DSxLK000599 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:28:59 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id n1so515288nzf for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:28:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QkT0RsuzX8hL3FEYE9FRVRu/QcT7eJGD5GnW30aq28pXZAtHXVxD1bgjnmDUTT8CwRPDmRXkH8Bv2Zw1yk2rocJqSkRqxopRTnEJ86LGc6knurt7/+K8Q9fEwF8w45x3enRCBsh43rGD9Q8ee7I7qtm8UlhYH9zKZUMonDJoN/M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Rf5+T6TxmfxgjdgD6+o3CSh0U9JizhRkuX5tz5e0X0/JL2QeBbLimJu+8R3lmrJ/56hcfCvWKHPDmmFrK0sN2Ji/QA4nYQKsLRxgdl0eLY9VpQ3F2COLIwH+lhpkDkH6089P99dn3i8rEFLIa7nShMx5fAgoJ44UJLfnZ7XSI8M= Received: by 10.142.112.5 with SMTP id k5mr87751wfc.1180704538269; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.83.14 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 06:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:28:58 +0200 From: Galevsky To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test In-Reply-To: <1180703253.5404.27.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <466014D6.3070103@omesc.com> <1180703253.5404.27.camel@blackwidow.nbk> X-Archives-Salt: 99566464-8903-4c78-b10a-77c7dcb24cec X-Archives-Hash: b6caf2500aa0c48e19191d62c58c45b1 Just my two cents: don't forget to use temporary email boxes like yopmail.com, these boxes can be very helpful for the kind of tests you may run. Gal' 2007/6/1, Albert Hopkins : > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > > testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and > > see > > if something happens, > > but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? > > Well, you set up a web server to deliver web content. I'm assuming > you're setting up a mail server to deliver mail. So the test is to see > that it delivers mail. > > Not that I've ever used postfix, but testing a mail server should be > pretty similar for any platform. > > 1. Create a mailbox (or use a remote one) > 2. Using a MUA, for example, connect to mail server. > 3. Send message to be delivered to mailbox > 4. Verify message delivered to mailbox. > > -- > Albert W. Hopkins > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list