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I need to test that a series of sites are up and running and that they can send and receive email.

Step one: send email from example1@example.com

Step two: expect response email emailServerOne@example.com within a given amount of time.

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@SamWoods What would you think the feasibility of automating this under a CI server like Jenkins would be? – Zach Reichert Jan 25 at 18:58
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It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Do the e-mails need to be sent from a certain domain, or could you use a free e-mail such as gmail like in the answer I linked to? Can you give a bit more context about the scenario you want to automate? What is the goal of the automation? – Sam Woods Jan 25 at 19:35
@SamWoods Yes I am considering using an account like gmail to send the automated emails. I don't need to to be from a specific domain. I am trying to send automated emails (several times a day) to 15+ instances of a web application, then after a to be determined period of time expect a response email. Basically testing that the applications can send and receive emails multiple times a day. On a failure I would need a notification (email, text, ...) – Zach Reichert Jan 25 at 21:13
If you are just testing the capabilities of the software and not any public domains, I would suggest you run locally some small mailer and smtp server, and use those from the test script for sending and receiving the emails. – Edu Jan 25 at 21:22
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If those are the only requirements then a simple (well, not so simple but not very complex) script in Perl, Python or your favorite scripting language will achieve the same results for free with greater flexibility.

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Parasoft SOAtest would be able to handle this. It would enable you to send emails and apply a time based assertion on receiving the response. On a failure it could then email you with an alert. http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/soatest.jsp

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You should take a look at Febooti. It is an open-source program that can create/send emails. I was using it prior to send an email with test results every morning once my test suites were finished.

Good Luck!

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