We are re-building our email infrastructure in a new datacenter. My company sends out several hundred thousand messages every night, and we are being required to verify that the new infrastructure can send out that many messages, meeting or exceeding the performance of the current system.
The problem is who to send the test messages to? Sending to real users is very rough and risky, setting up each test is time-consuming, and poses some problems with database tracking too (if we send to real users, we need to track who is sent what, but that data would be generated in our test environment instead of the current production one).
I was hoping there was a way to send to some external recipients, but fake ones. I can't send to yahoo, hotmail, etc, because after a few thousand messages to the same recipient they would blacklist us.
Any thoughts on how we can test this system, by sending to actual, verifiable recipients (not in our network, we need to send to actual addresses outside out network/firewall)?
The problem is who to send the test messages to? Sending to real users is very rough and risky, setting up each test is time-consuming, and poses some problems with database tracking too (if we send to real users, we need to track who is sent what, but that data would be generated in our test environment instead of the current production one).
I was hoping there was a way to send to some external recipients, but fake ones. I can't send to yahoo, hotmail, etc, because after a few thousand messages to the same recipient they would blacklist us.
Any thoughts on how we can test this system, by sending to actual, verifiable recipients (not in our network, we need to send to actual addresses outside out network/firewall)?
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