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IMAPMIXER is a tool to make testing of any IMAP client/server easy. Also, it's a very good tool to analyse an IMAP session or study the IMAP protocol.
As you might test both a client and a server (with respectively a server and client as backend) we use another terminology: - the IMAP client/server you want to test is called the zealot; - the IMAP client/server backend is called the guardian.
Official repository is at github.
IMAPMIXER is written with two kind of user targets in mind: - users and developers wanting to deploy IMAPMIXER themselves; - maintainer(s) of your IMAP client/server already provide this tool for you.
IMAPMIXER is an IMAP proxy which means it does not rely on any IMAP client/server. Although you are free to use any IMAP backend you like be aware that embedded (fake) ones are provided.
You can interact with IMAPMIXER in 3 ways from a test suites (called mandatory agent): - the API from your prefered language (recommended); - the command-line (usefull for shell scripts but slow); - the local unix socket with STOMP protocol of your own.
Brief overview:
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| test suites | | zealot |
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| ^ |
| | |
v | |
+------------+ |
| imap-mixer | | (direct connection)
+------------+ |
| ^ |
| | |
v | |
+-------------+ |
| guardian |<---+
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Since you're using IMAP, you should be able to directly create a external IMAP link (usefull if you intend to squeeze behind the proxy).
For more background, check out the dedicated documentation.
Bugs, issues and contributions should be reported to the mailing list. Please, don't use the github features (messages, pull requests, etc) at all. It would most likely be discarded or ignored.