On May 04, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: >On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 09:46:44AM +1200, Tim Penhey wrote: >> On Sat, 01 May 2010 08:16:24 you wrote: >> > Merge authors: >> > Björn Tillenius (bjornt) >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ >> > revno: 9322 [merge] >> > committer: Launchpad Patch Queue Manager <[email protected]> >> > branch nick: launchpad >> > timestamp: Fri 2010-04-30 21:13:26 +0100 >> > message: >> > [release-critical=bjornt][r=gary][bug=572077] Revert sendmail.py part >> > of db-devel r9205, >> > so that scripts don't use the zope mailers. Scripts need to be >> > configured, and possibly rewritten, >> > before we can use the zope mailers there. >> > modified: >> > lib/lp/services/mail/sendmail.py >> >> Hi Bjorn, >> >> As you probably know already, it was me who did this change. > >Yes. I forgot to send an e-mail about it, since it was Friday evening, >and I had better things to do :) > >You might want to read a blog post of mine, although I hope you don't >take it personal ;) (this was just an excellent real-world example) > > http://tillenius.me/blog/2010/05/03/problems-with-drive-by-fixes/ > > >> The primary reason for this was local testing. I wasn't aware of the full >> consequences of the change, and was trying to QA locally. >> >> How should we QA changes locally when dealing with script email? > >Unfortunately, it's quite difficult. You could log the mail, or the >important parts of the mail. Another thing would be to do something >special for the development config. I think that mailman has a test >smtp server. It might be possible to look into using that one to store >the sent mails somewhere.
There's a layer that fires up an SMTP server in a separate thread. It stores messages it receives on port 9025 and you can access messages via a thread-safe API. It's easy to use if you can arrange to deliver mail on localhost:9025. -Barry
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