[Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool

[Nick Osborn]

On 18 May 2010, at 22:32, Phil Howard wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 15:50, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> imaptest actually allows something similar to that. It has possibility to
>> "expect" kind of scripts where it sends some commands and expects something
>> specific in return. There's a tests/ directory that tests a lot of imap
>> commands replies. I don't remember if it currently supports matching
>> multi-line replies, and if it does it would be a bit difficult to write
>> those for larger emails.
>> 
>> Anyway, it doesn't support SSL/TLS. You could run it through stunnel
>> though.
>> 
> 
> What I need is a program that already has all the logic to do IMAP as a
> client already in it.  This isn't about testing IMAP logic per-se.  It's
> about making sure mail is going through OK, and logins that should fail will
> fail, and mail deliveries that should fail will fail (for example mail from
> a computer listed as blocked should never show up in the mailbox designated
> to test that, along with mail that has keywords specifically marked as "is
> always spam").  It's testing at a higher level than seeing if a given IMAP
> command gives the expected response (which is more of a diagnostic tool than
> the monitoring tool I need).

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