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Integration Testing IMAP, SMTP and POP3 with GreenMail

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Having written some e-mail handling, sending or receiving library you’d like to run some integration tests against a real mail server?

Then GreenMail might help you out here .. the framework is not quite new on the market but it is really easy to setup IMAP,SMTP or POP3 services with it and it comes with some helpful libraries making your life a bit easier here.

That’s why I’ve come to the idea to share some examples for setting up different server instances, creating user accounts and – at last – fetching and validating e-mails…

Docker Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Restrict Network

Can be useful when using a third-party image that we do not trust

Run with no network

docker run --network none <image>

Run with private isolated network

At least containers attached to this network can talk with another

docker network create --internal my_isolated_network
docker run --network my_isolated_network <image>

Block using firewall

e.g. using iptables or ipfw

# Get container's IP
docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' <container_name>

# Block all outbound connections from that IP
sudo iptables -I DOCKER-USER -s <container_ip> -j DROP

Linux Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

These are not only linux snippets but also bash snippets and snippets using tools that run under Linux, *nix or sometimes even MacOSX, I should reorder this article someday ;)

Settings for more reliable bash scripts

set -euo pipefail

this gives us …

-e: exit script if a single command fails
-u: exit script if an unset variable is used
-o pipefail: return value of a pipeline is the status of the last command to exit with a non-zero status, or zero if no command exited with a non-zero status