MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Sun Mar 11 15:08:42 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] QA / regression testing / stress testing IMAP
	pseudo-clients?
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Bill Janssen writes:
> It would be useful to have a pseudo-client that exercised an IMAP 
> server, to check for implementation errors, to do regression testing, 
> to stress-test. It would also be useful to have this client exercise 
> the typical patterns that various specific existing client 
> implementations use, to make sure all the combinations that a server 
> would normally experience are considered.
>
> Anyone have, or know of, such a beast?

Every IMAP server author? But people generally don't publish it, perhaps 
because it tests a specific server rather than IMAP generally and 
extending it would be more work than it's worth.

You might try mstone.

Arnt

