Mailosaur's integration focuses on solving three major testing challenges in modern applications:
- CAPTCHA flow testing: The email verification code sent during registration/login cannot be handled automatically by traditional methods, but can now be obtained directly through the API:
const email = await mailosaur.messages.get( 'server-id', { sentTo: 'user@test.mailosaur.net' } ); const code = extractVerificationCode(email.html.body); - asynchronous operation verification: Avoid hard-coded waiting times for email triggers such as password reset, instead polling the mailbox to confirm the arrival of the email.
- Test Isolation: Each test case can use a unique temporary e-mail address (such as the
test-${Date.now()}@domain.mailosaur.net) to prevent interference between tests
Technical realization points:
- Example of automated Mailosaur client management within Shortest
- Keeps the last 15 minutes of email logs by default to balance real-time and performance
- Supports HTML parsing of email content and link click simulation.
This solution is more reliable than the traditional SMTP test mailbox (no network latency effects) and closer to real scenarios than the Mock solution.
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