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@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
