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+"""Throw email at Mailman as fast as you can.
+
+This is not a unit test, it's a functional test, so you can't run it within
+the unit test framework (hence its filename doesn't start with `test_').
+Here's how I use this one:
+
+- set up a dummy list
+
+- add an alias to your MTA, say `devnull' that pipes its messages to, you
+  guessed it, /dev/null
+
+- make this address a member of your list
+
+- add another address to `accept_these_non_members', let's call it ok@dom.ain
+
+- change the FROMADDR variable to ok@dom.ain
+
+- change the LISTADDR variable to point to your list
+
+- run this program like so: python fblast.py N
+  where N is the number of seconds to sleep before sending the next msg
+
+- let this run until you're tired of it, then hit ^C
+"""
+
+FROMADDR = 'ok@dom.ain'
+LISTADDR = 'list@dom.ain'
+
+import sys
+import time
+import smtplib
+
+conn = smtplib.SMTP()
+conn.connect()
+
+snooze = int(sys.argv[1])
+
+try:
+    i = 1
+    while 1:
+        sys.stdout.write('.')
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        i += 1
+        if i % 50 == 0:
+            print
+        for j in range(10):
+            conn.sendmail(FROMADDR, [LISTADDR], """\
+From: %(FROMADDR)s
+To: $(LISTADDR)s
+Subject: test %(num)d
+X-No-Archive: yes
+
+testing %(num)d
+""" % {'num'     : i,
+       'FROMADDR': FROMADDR,
+       'LISTADDR': LISTADDR,
+       }
+        time.sleep(snooze)
+finally:
+    conn.quit()