ImapLibrary is a IMAP email testing library for Robot Framework.
More information about this library can be found in the Keyword Documentation.
Please note the new authoritative git repository for robotframework-imaplibrary package is: https://github.com/rickypc/robotframework-imaplibrary
robotframework-imaplibrary package ownership is transitioned to me as the new project maintainer.
I will go through the pull requests from previous repository, as well as issue list. I will try to accomodate as much as I could as time permit. There is no need to re-post.
If you are interested to contribute back to this project, please see Contributing section.
*** Settings ***
Library ImapLibrary
*** Test Cases ***
Email Verification
Open Mailbox host=imap.domain.com [email protected] password=secret
${LATEST} = Wait For Email [email protected] timeout=300
${HTML} = Open Link From Email ${LATEST}
Should Contain ${HTML} Your email address has been updated
Close Mailbox
Multipart Email Verification
Open Mailbox host=imap.domain.com [email protected] password=secret
${LATEST} = Wait For Email [email protected] timeout=300
${parts} = Walk Multipart Email ${LATEST}
:FOR ${i} IN RANGE ${parts}
\\ Walk Multipart Email ${LATEST}
\\ ${content-type} = Get Multipart Content Type
\\ Continue For Loop If '${content-type}' != 'text/html'
\\ ${payload} = Get Multipart Payload decode=True
\\ Should Contain ${payload} your email
\\ ${HTML} = Open Link From Email ${LATEST}
\\ Should Contain ${HTML} Your email
Close Mailbox
The recommended installation method is using pip:
pip install robotframework-imaplibrary
The main benefit of using pip
is that it automatically installs all
dependencies needed by the library. Other nice features are easy upgrading
and support for un-installation:
pip install --upgrade robotframework-imaplibrary
pip uninstall robotframework-imaplibrary
Notice that using --upgrade
above updates both the library and all
its dependencies to the latest version. If you want, you can also install
a specific version:
pip install robotframework-imaplibrary==x.x.x
If you are behind a proxy, you can use --proxy
command line option
or set http_proxy
and/or https_proxy
environment variables to
configure pip
to use it. If you are behind an authenticating NTLM proxy,
you may want to consider installing CNTML to handle communicating with it.
For more information about --proxy
option and using pip with proxies
in general see:
- http://pip-installer.org/en/latest/usage.html
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9698557/how-to-use-pip-on-windows-behind-an-authenticating-proxy
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14149422/using-pip-behind-a-proxy
If you do not have network connection or cannot make proxy to work, you need to resort to manual installation. This requires installing both the library and its dependencies yourself.
- Make sure you have Robot Framework installed.
- Download source distributions (
*.tar.gz
) for the library: - Download PGP signatures (
*.tar.gz.asc
) for signed packages. - Find each public key used to sign the package:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-keys D1406DE7
- Select the number from the list to import the public key
- Verify the package against its PGP signature:
gpg --verify robotframework-imaplibrary-x.x.x.tar.gz.asc robotframework-imaplibrary-x.x.x.tar.gz
- Extract each source distribution to a temporary location.
- Go to each created directory from the command line and install each project using:
python setup.py install
If you are on Windows, and there are Windows installers available for certain projects, you can use them instead of source distributions. Just download 32bit or 64bit installer depending on your system, double-click it, and follow the instructions.
- doc/
- Keyword documentation
- src/
- Python source code
- test/
Test files
- utest/
- Python unit test
To write tests with Robot Framework and ImapLibrary, ImapLibrary must be imported into your Robot test suite.
*** Settings ***
Library ImapLibrary
See Robot Framework User Guide for more information.
More information about Robot Framework standard libraries and built-in tools can be found in the Robot Framework Documentation.
The Keyword Documentation can be found online, if you need to generate the keyword documentation, run:
make doc
Test the testing library, talking about dogfooding, let's run:
make test
If you would like to contribute code to Imap Library project you can do so through GitHub by forking the repository and sending a pull request.
When submitting code, please make every effort to follow existing conventions and style in order to keep the code as readable as possible. Please also include appropriate test cases.
Before your code can be accepted into the project you must also sign the Imap Library CLA (Individual Contributor License Agreement).
That's it! Thank you for your contribution!
Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Richard Huang.
This library is free software, licensed under: Apache License, Version 2.0.
Documentation and other similar content are provided under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.