Steven Brown wrote:
It appears as though the local server waits for the SMTP commands to finish
before it returns a result to CURL, whereas directly accessing my bootstrap
allows the SMTP commands to run in the background almost as a separate
thread.
i doubt there are any separate threads here. the basic issue is that
smtp commands finishing != message delivered to intended recipients
mailbox.
usually, smtp commands finishing in php code just means the mail server
has accepted the message into its queue. so:
time a: smtp commands finish in php code
time a + n: pop commands run
time a + N: message gets to user mailbox
if n is greater than N, then your tests will run ok. if not, then they wont.
N is not dependent on your scripts or tests, but on an external process
- the mail server.
so, the simplest thing to do is to make n larger by putting a sleep call
in before you run the pop checks.
another less simple approach is to use mock objects to represents the
mail process.
make sense?
Cheers,
Steven
cheers
justin
