[Webtest] Re: new custom test step added (fetchPop3)

[Marc Guillemot]

Great!

I wanted to do something similar since a long time but didn't made the step from idea to realisation.

I think that some other special steps would be interested to check explicitely header fields, attachments, ...

Marc.

Luca Scheuring wrote:
> hello folks
> 
> I've added a custom test step called fetchPop3 to the webtest community
> site. it allows accessing a Pop3 Mailbox and fetching a specific mail. Once
> the mail is stored in a local file, you can use the invoke step in
> conjunction with the file protocol to access the mailtext. This enables you
> to use the common webtest steps like verifytext or storeregex to process the
> text of the mail.
> 
> we currently use this step to check
> - if an eCard mail gets delivered and if the link in the mail to fetch the
> eCard actually works
> - the 'change email address' procedure where the user needs to click on a
> link in a mail to confirm the new email address
> 
> http://webtest-community.canoo.com/wiki/space/fetchPop3
> 
> have a nice weekend
> 
> --luca