[Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool

[William Blunn]

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
> 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).

It sounds like you want a sort of "toolbox" of ready-made and tested 
components, such as an IMAP client, but with rich programmatic 
interfaces so that you only need to write a little bit of "glue" code to 
make it do exactly what you want.

Bill