Hot answers tagged email
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I have done a simple thing.
Setup a IMAP/POP3 mail server
Send the mail to server
Retrieve the mail from the server using code. (Java Mail API for example)
Do further actions.
I don't know about any industry standard. But this works for me.
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Finally figured it out, with the exception of reportitems such as Undeliverables. Most of the current code is from snippets that I put together to make it work.
public void readOutlookTest()
{
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NameSpace ns = null;
...
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With the limited information available related to scenario, following are list of few other test cases that can be validated -
What If:
User sends an email for unsubscription but user is not a registered user.
User subscribes and unsubscribes immediately
Same unsubscription requests come multiple times
Same unsubscription requests come at the same time
...
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Disclaimer - I work for the company that made this.
You might find that a hosted service such as Clickity is helpful for this.
You can of course set up something like this yourself , but the benefit of someone else doing the hard work is obvious.
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Are you trying to test the actual email verification process itself, or is the verification just a necessary step to enable further testing of other features?
If the latter, you might consider it cheaper to provide a test-specific(*) method to simply set an email address as 'verified' and leave the testing of email verification itself to your manual ...
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As best as I can tell, you have two problems: you want to verify that the email is sent but you don't want to depend on an existing email provider; and you want to test what happens when an email's embedded link is clicked.
For the first problem, I would probably configure a test mode in the server in which it would write files to the file system or to a ...
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You could use a test email account and access it using an IMAP/POP client?
What I do in my Django apps is I set the email backend to a file based one for testing. Emails are then not sent to the addresses but are stored in individual log files. I can then test the content of these files.
There are two similar but different scenarios here. One is testing ...
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I think this is related to this question which suggests a SMTP pretend server:
Testing email generation
but I suspect this would need to be extended to 'know' about certain emails and be able to respond to doesnt@exist.com in the correct way.
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