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Tim Harrison

DevSecOps Team Lead

Create and email a test file (of any size)

This comes in handy when testing email filesize filtering on a new mailserver.

First we need to install sendmail (The program we will be using to send the email).

apt-get install sendemail

The next step will be to browse to an appopriate directory (eg /tmp/) and create a file for you to use to send your mail (Ensure you have sufficient storage space available if you are looking to send very large files!)

cd /tmp/
dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt count=[number of BLOCKS] bs=[Read / Write BYTES at a time]

EG:

[email protected]:/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
2097152 bytes (2.1 MB) copied, 0.0146288 s, 143 MB/s

Now we just need to send an email with the created file attached:

sendemail -f [email protected] -t [email protected] -m “This is a test message” -u “Subject” -a /tmp/file.txt

-f = From -t = To -m = The message body -u = The message subject -a = The location of the attachment you wish to send