[Techtalk] Performance metrics for email processing

[Dan Shearer]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:28PM -0400, Beth Skwarecki wrote:
> > At 7/13/04 01:41 PM , Terri Oda wrote:
> > 
> > >A simple "filter A took X minutes, filter B took Y minutes... for Z 
> > >messages." is all I have in mind at the moment, but what other metrics are 
> > >useful when it comes to email processing?
> 

Perhaps numbers related to how long your entire mail system takes to
work as opposed to just some parts of it?

There is a utility called postal at http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ .
There might be slowdowns for example in the way your mail delivery
system calls the mail filter, and just testing the filter won't
necessarily catch those.

I think your enquiry is really interesting. Any chance of a look at the
scripts you end up creating?

/Dan