So you basically look for SMTP and also a POP3 access to the server? With that you could send a mail using SMTP and retrieve using POP3 to make sure the mail reached safely? There is no way to get the return receipt in SMTP (sorry, I could be wrong since I coded SMTP & POP3 6 years back with limited support).
I used jmailsrv which is simple to configure and test on your scenarios. If you could share your testing strategy to test email, it would lead to good discussion. Regards, Gopal On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Gopalakrishnan Subramani > <gopalakrishnan.subram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Use the http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/smtpd.py server. smtpd > is > > a proxy so only look at the client interface level, you may not need to > push > > to local server, no need to store to DB etc. > > > > you copy the file and modify and wrap to meet your automation needs and > to > > get the response confirmation once the mail delivered. > > > > SMTP RFC is very simple to code even in C++ & Java. But until or unless > you > > have mail client or mail proxy or a email server as your core > > business/module or automating the application functional testing, you > don't > > need to worry about testing with real mail server. > > > > Since you have mentioned as automated test, I assume that you don't mean > > unit testing. > > It is automated acceptance testing .. so testing is strictly at the > system boundaries. So it has to test the released version of the > artifact - without *any* changes. I presume that would constrain me > from introducing a different smtpd.py > > > Gopal > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Dhananjay Nene > > <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Anand Chitipothu < > anandol...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > 2011/8/24 Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>: > >> >> What would be good options to embed a python mail server ? > >> >> > >> >> The scope is strictly restricted to automated testing. So the > embedded > >> >> mail server (embedded in the test cases) acts as the server which > >> >> receives email and is in turn further queried to ensure receipt of > >> >> email correctly. > >> >> > >> >> One option is http://lamsonproject.org/ > >> >> > >> >> Are there any other options you might suggest? > >> > > >> > Do you really want to run a mail server for testing? I usually monkey > >> > patch the function to send email and store the emails in a global > >> > variable for later access. > >> > > >> > >> In automated acceptance testing context I believe it would be > >> appropriate to implement a mail server. With unit tests, stubbing the > >> mail server with a mock would've been fine. > >> > >> Dhananjay > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
