[Wtr-general] how to test e-mail applications

[Zeljko Filipin]

As many web applications do, one that I am testing also sends e-mails. Also,
it can receive e-mails.

I started testing e-mail functionality. I found Net::SMTP (
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/smtp/rdoc/index.html) for sending
and Net::POP3 (
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/pop/rdoc/classes/Net/POP3.html)
for receiving. They both work just fine.

I also found RubyMail (http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/) and TMail (
http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/tmail/) that should make my testing easier
(parsing e-mails mostly).

But...

I could not install Tmail because I have problems with C compiler.
RubyMail does not recognize body of e-mails I am testing with: message.from,
message.to and message.subject returns strings that I need, but
message.bodyalways returns nil.

I will try to contact authors of Tmail and RubyMail. I also started making
my own ruby application for sending, receiving and parsing e-mails (my first
TDD project!).

I just wanted to ask if somebody has any experience with testing e-mail part
of your (mostly web) applications and can suggest some tools? Thanks.

Željko

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http://www.testingreflections.com/blog/3071
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