Number of SMTP Sessions with SMTP Sampler

[Iv...@t-systems.com]

Hello,

a simple question on the SMTP Sampler:

Are the sessions handled in a similar way to the http samplers? In other words, if for example I have
"Number of threads" = 5 and "Loop count" = 20

I would expect that the 20 SMTP requests in each thread use the same SMTP session, which will be closed at the end of the loop, and therefore a maximum of 5 smtp sessions active on the mail server at any given time, and also a total of 5 sessions during the whole test

Is my assumption correct, or is the SMTP session closed at the end of each request, which would still mean maximum 5 concurrent sessions, but a total of 100 unique sessions during the test?


Thanks and best regards,
Ivan