[Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 18 May 2010, Phil Howard wrote:

> 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

That're the IMAP libraries for.

> 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).

IMHO, you would need a pretty complex language to describe, what action is 
to fail and how (server response) and which includes stuff like "scan all 
messages in mailbox XYZ and search for SPAM tags", that this is probably 
not far away from using an IMAP lib itself.

Back in the time, when one dialed up via modem, there had been a tool 
called "expect", http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/LDP/nag2/x6675.html . 
Maybe you find something more generic by combing an IMAP library and a 
general purpose pattern matching tool.

BTW: It's more an configuration testing suite in my eyes and quite useful.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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