[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] CVS: Zope3/lib/python/Zope/App/OFS/Services/SmtpService/Views - __init__.py:1.1 configure.zcml:1.1

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "JF" == Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> writes:

    JF> I told Merthy that he could skip unit tests, at least for the
    JF> content class because, frankly, I couldn't think of how he
    JF> would write them, The class does pretty much nothing but send
    JF> mail. You don't want to send mail in a unit test.  The only
    JF> way I could see to do this would be to actually write an SMTP
    JF> server that the class could connect to.  I suppose that this
    JF> would be possible, but it would, obviously, be a significant
    JF> effort.

Not necessarily.  I wrote Python's smptd.py module for exactly this
purpose w.r.t. Mailman.  It's a little kludgy because it has to work
around asyncore, but it's doable.  Take a look at tests/EmailBase.py
in the MM2.1 source tree.

-Barry