[Catalyst] C::P::Email and testing

[Daniel McBrearty]

that's a nice idea. thanks Perrin.

On 12/18/06, Perrin Harkins <perrin at elem.com> wrote:
> Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> > if you have an action that sends an email, how do you write tests for it?
>
> We do it by subclassing Net::SMTP::Server to write all mail to files in
> a temp directory.  Then we send the mail to it and check the contents in
> the temp file.  That way the whole code path gets executed and we don't
> depend on the local machine having working SMTP and IMAP servers.
>
> - Perrin
>
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