Hi folks,
any tips on testing email sending? Other than maybe creating a gmail account, especially for receiving those emails?
I would like to maybe store the emails locally, within a folder as they are sent.
Tips would be great! Thanks :)
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You can use a file backend for sending emails which is a very handy solution for development and testing; emails are not sent but stored in a folder you can specify!
lazerscience
2010-09-16 16:10:54
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A:
Patching SMTPLib for testing purposes can help test sending mails without sending them.
pyfunc
2010-09-16 16:15:03
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A:
For any project that doesn't require sending attachments, I use django-mailer, which has the benefit of all outbound emails ending up in a queue until I trigger their sending, and even after they've been sent, they are then logged - all of which is visible in the Admin, making it easy to quickly check what you emailing code is trying to fire off into the intertubes.
stevejalim
2010-09-16 16:17:46
Further to that, the Message objects created by django-mailer mean you can prod them (and inspect their contents) in unit tests too (I know that there's outbound mailbox support in the test suite for a dummy mailbox, but using django-mailer doesn't send mail unless the management command sends it, which means you can't use that mailbox object)
stevejalim
2010-09-16 16:38:48
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Django test framework has some built in helpers aid you with testing e-mail service.
Example from docs (short version):
from django.core import mail
from django.test import TestCase
class EmailTest(TestCase):
def test_send_email(self):
mail.send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.',
'[email protected]', ['[email protected]'],
fail_silently=False)
self.assertEquals(len(mail.outbox), 1)
self.assertEquals(mail.outbox[0].subject, 'Subject here')
rebus
2010-09-16 16:18:09