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Get email body with the check_inbox function

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Hello,

Thanks very much for this very useful lib!

I wonder if it’s possible to get the email content when using the check_inbox function. I had a look at the code and this doesn’t seem to be supported.

Thanks for your help! Thierry

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Created 4 years ago
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dsmurrellcommented, Oct 13, 2019

Hey @levz0r, I’m trying this out now and I believe that check_inbox has some useful functionality that get_messages is missing. That is, it waits for a while until it grabs the exact email you’re looking for. I’m also writing some tests which rely on sending a registration email off and doing something with the body when it arrives in the gmail inbox, and I’m finding that if I use get_messages alone, then it gets them too early - before the email I want has arrived and my tests fail.

I can use check_inbox and then run get_messages, which works, and which I am resorting to now, but having the body come back as part of check_inbox for a single email sure would be handy. It would be far less code in the testing framework and also 1 let call to _get_recent_email.

Might it be worth accepting PR: https://github.com/levz0r/gmail-tester/pull/8 as submitted by @templth ?

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levz0rcommented, Sep 8, 2019

P.S

In the post we are using check_inbox, because we do not do assertions on the email body. If we would need to that, we would use get_messages…