Re: [Webtest] Problems using email steps - Robert Heinerman - com.canoo.lists.webtest

5 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] Problems using email steps

From	Sent On	Attachments
Michael Knapp	12 Apr 2006 13:24
Siegfried Goeschl	13 Apr 2006 00:52
Michael Knapp	14 Apr 2006 15:28
Paul King	14 Apr 2006 19:50
Robert Heinerman	18 Apr 2006 03:35

Subject:	Re: [Webtest] Problems using email steps
From:	Robert Heinerman (r.he...@3united.com)
Date:	04/18/2006 03:35:55 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

Hi,

I experienced that not all email servers work. I have Email steps in a test which work with a free GMX email address fine, and if I want to use one of our mail accounts for the same test nothing works anymore (similar to your problems).

I had no time to determine why this behavior is, and what is different between these two mail accounts. Maybe it is an encription issue.

Try another email account (www.gmx.net), to test if your problems are caused by your email account or caused by canoo.

hope it helps, rob

Paul King schrieb:

Due to variations in how email servers work, you sometimes get problems trying to test them. There are different delays before they receive messages and many have explicit code to stop multiple logins - requiring a delay between login attempts. Perhaps the approach used within the emailManualTests.xml selftest will help:

<target name="awaitArrival"> <sleep seconds="15"/> <webtest name="emailManualTests: awaitArrival"> <steps> &sharedConfiguration; <emailSetConfig server="${mailserver}" type="${servertype}" password="${password}" username="${username}"/> <retry maxcount="15"> <sleep seconds="5"/> <emailStoreMessageCount subject="/mailtest - multifiles/" property="emailcount"/> <verifyXPath xpath="#{emailcount}>=3" text="true"/> </retry> </steps> </webtest> </target>

Ultimately it would be good to make the steps more robust, e.g. share a login between steps but at the moment each step does a login, so delays are often required. Then again, your problem may lie elsewhere.

Regards, Paul.

Michael Knapp wrote:

Thanks, Siegfried. I have latest jars in my canoo/lib; I don't have write access to add them to jre/lib/ext (and they are not there), but I did add them to my CLASSPATH -- wouldn't that be equivalent?

I'm not getting the same error. It seems to go a little bit farther, but still behaves oddly.

I get this output now (edited for shorter lines):

[emailSetConfig] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ >>>> Start Step: emailSetConfig "<unknown>" (2/6) [emailStoreMessageCount] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ >>>> Start Step: emailStoreMessageCount "<unknown>" (3/6) [null] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ >>>> Start Step: null "<unknown>" (4/6) [echo] #{count}

[emailMessageContentFilter] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ >>>> Start Step: emailMessageContentFilter "<unknown>" (5/6) [emailMessageContentFilter] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ Running with: Canoo Webtest: R_1196. [emailMessageContentFilter] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ Exception thrown from this class: com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepFailedException [emailMessageContentFilter] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - \ Message was: Could not retrieve message.

Running this code:

It also gives a "could not retrieve message" error if I add any content filters, however the fact that it can't even get a messge count, but doesn't throw a login error, seems troubling.

I have verified with a separate pop3 client that my settings are ok.

Again, any more help from anyone is appreciated.

Thanks mike

-----Original Message----- From: webt...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webt...@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Siegfried Goeschl Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:53 AM To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] Problems using email steps

Hi Michael,

you might check which version of javamail your are using - the latest is javamail-1.3.3 - also check if you have an outdated in in jre/lib/ext

Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl

Michael Knapp wrote:

Hi,

Do I need a certain jar to use the email steps? Or is this a config error?

I'm getting:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.mail.Session.getDebugOut()Ljava/io/PrintStream;

Executing the following:

Thanks mike