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Possible future performance tests

Stress test imap

• Article [1]
• Process:
  1. Download from imap server
  2. Copy to different account

Script:

#!/usr/bin/python
 
import sys, os, random
import tempfile
 
from email import Message
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from mailbox import Maildir
 
dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
print dir
 
testmaildir = Maildir(dir + '/foobar', create=True)
 
for i in range(0, 12000):
        msg = Message.Message()
        msg.add_header('Return-Path', '')
        msg.add_header('Subject', 'test')
        msg.add_header('From', 'example@example.org')
        if random.random() < 0.5:
                msg2 = MIMEMultipart()
                msg2.attach(MIMEText('foobar'))
                msg2.attach(MIMEApplication(os.urandom(random.randint(1,1000000))))
        else:
                msgtext = ""
                for i in range(1, random.randint(1,10000)):
                        msgtext += random.choice('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!@#$%^&*()_- +=')
                msg2 = MIMEText(msgtext)
        msg.set_payload(msg2.as_string())
        testmaildir.add(msg)