java服务器测试,使用Java邮件服务器进行测试

I'm in the process of testing an application that takes mail out of a mailbox, performs some action based on the content of that mail, and then sends a response mail depending on the result of the action.

I'm looking for a way to write tests for this application. Ideally, I'd like for these tests to bring up their own mail server, push my test emails to a folder on this mail server, and have my application scrape the mail out of the mail server that my test started.

Configuring the application to use the mailserver is not difficult, but I do not know where to look for a programatic way of starting a mail server in Java. I've looked at JAMES, but I am unable to figure out how to start the server from within my test.

So the question is this: What can I use for a mail server in Java that I can configure and start entirely within Java?

解决方案

There is also very simple in use GreenMail which was designer as a mail server for automatic "unit" tests.

From projects web page (probably there are some others tools with sending/receiving functionality nowadays):

GreenMail is an open source, intuitive

and easy-to-use test suite of email

servers for testing purposes. Supports

SMTP, POP3, IMAP with SSL socket

support. GreenMail also provides a

JBoss GreenMail Service. GreenMail is

the fist and only library that offers

a test framework for both receiving

and retrieving emails from Java.