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Jul 20, 2012

Unit testing the Email notification

Posted by Sham HC

I frequently encounter the question about Unit testing the Email notification & in support while debugging time is spent waiting for a mail to arrive. In CQ, Email notification happens during "Subscription to page events", "Subscription to forum events", "Perform a step in a workflow" Or "Any custom implementation".  Also based on envirnoment you might use "local Mail server", "free smtp server" etc... When you move on to next assignment the envirnoment differs. In this article I am sharing one of the mail utility developed and you might find this helpful.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Advantages
  3. Installation & Configuration
    1. Installation
    2. Configuration
  4. Usage
    1. GUI
      1. Screenshot of succesful startup
      2. Sample dump message snapshot
      3. Use Default Close button to stop the server. The email messages are cleaned and not persisted.
    2. Non UI
      1. Snapshot of console on startup
      2. Type in "dump" and hit enter key to get the email dump
      3. To store the email copy into a file Type in "dump <filename>" and hit enter key to get the email dump stored in a file.
      4. To shutdown Type in "quit" and hit enter key
  5. Download
  6. Reference

Introduction

Mail utility is a custom application developed using google SubEtha[1] java library which acts as

  • Platform independent Simple SMTP server.
  • A Client to unit test the email notification of the received messages.
  • Both command and GUI Interface

Advantages

The Mail utility tool will help in following usecase scenario

  • Acts as a free SMTP server program to lets you send & unit test messages directly from your local computer.
  • Corporate firewall settings might block access to free SMTP account‎s. Example:- gmail, etc...
  • Avoid reconfiguring the SMTP server when SMTP provider changes the IPs and ports 
  • Avoid cleaning the Inbox has the email is not persisted after shutdown. 
  • Unit test the cq email notifications to users such as
    • Subscription to page events
    • Subscription to forum events
    • Perform a step in a workflow
    • Any custom implementation

Installation & Configuration

Installation

  1. Download "mailutility.zip" and unzip into any directory it contains "smtpserverclient.jar" and "mailreader.properties".
  2. Start Mail utility using one of the following methods:
    • If using a GUI file-system explorer, double-click the "smtpserverclient.jar" file.
    • If using the command line with gui use,  java -jar smtpserverclient.jar
    • If gui is not supported in platform use,  java -jar smtpserverclient.jar nonui

Configuration

  • By default the SMTP server has host name "localhost" & port number "2566".  To use different value copy a valid "mailreader.properties" file into the same directory as the "smtpserverclient.jar" file and modify property file using text editor.
  • CQ Configuration snapshot and more details at http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/administering/notification.html

 

Usage

GUI

  • Screenshot of succesful startup

 

  • Sample dump message snapshot

 

  • Use Default Close button to stop the server. The email messages are cleaned and not persisted.

Non UI

  • Snapshot of console on startup

  • Type in "dump" and hit enter key to get the email dump

  • To store the email copy into a file Type in "dump <filename>" and hit enter key to get the email dump stored in a file.

  • To shutdown Type in "quit" and hit enter key

Download

Reference

[1] http://code.google.com/p/subethasmtp

Note:- Information provided in this blog is for test purpose only and express my personal view.

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