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I recently wrote mailing list software in Ruby On Rails. I would like to get some expert advice on the best way to test it. For example, it would be cool if I could write a script generate 10,000 email addresses, use the software to send an email to those 10,000 addresses, and then write a script to make sure the emails got through. I am not sure how easy/possible this is.
If you happen to have an email address on a system run with the Postfix MTA, you have an arbitrarily large supply of email addresses at your disposal. For example, my regular email address is nr@cs.tufts.edu, but mail sent to nr+xxx@cs.tufts.edu will get forwarded according to the contents of ~nr/.forward+xxx. I used this facility once when I need a collection of 120 distinct email addresses because I was acting as a trusted third party for anonymous communication between a bunch of other people.
In the default configuration for Postfix, the manual says