Try this test-mhmail probe.

[nmh] / test / mhmail / test-mhmail

diff --git a/test/mhmail/test-mhmail b/test/mhmail/test-mhmail
index fa9058667772e4818d9ea2482dfbcd6ac94ffdc5..43f4cc717cf02215f3cfa7766d8e1daebcf9bf8f 100755 (executable)
--- a/test/mhmail/test-mhmail
+++ b/test/mhmail/test-mhmail
@@ -21,36 +21,16 @@ fi
 # $4 contains the message body.
 test_mhmail ()
 {
-    "${MH_OBJ_DIR}/test/fakesmtp" "$actual" $localport &
-    pid="$!"
-
-    # The server doesn't always come up fast enough, so sleep and
-    # retry a few times if it fails...
-    status=1
-    for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20; do
-        if [ $3 = '|' ]; then
-          if printf '%s' "$4" | mhmail recipient@example.com $2 \
-             -server 127.0.0.1 -port $localport; then
-              status=0
-              break
-          fi
-        else
-          if mhmail recipient@example.com $2 -body "$4" \
-             -server 127.0.0.1 -port $localport; then
-              status=0
-              break
-          fi
-        fi
-        sleep 2
-    done
-    if [ $status -ne 0 ]; then
-      printf '%s: mhmail failed, was fakesmtp given enough time to start?\n' \
-             "$0" >&2
-      exit 1
+    pid=`"${MH_OBJ_DIR}/test/fakesmtp" "$actual" $localport`
+
+    if [ $3 = '|' ]; then
+       printf '%s' "$4" | mhmail recipient@example.com $2 \
+                       -server 127.0.0.1 -port $localport
+    else
+       mhmail recipient@example.com $2 -body "$4" \
+             -server 127.0.0.1 -port $localport
     fi
 
-    wait ${pid}
-
     #
     # It's hard to calculate the exact Date: header post is going to
     # use, so we'll just use sed to remove the actual date so we can easily
@@ -58,6 +38,11 @@ test_mhmail ()
     # Message-ID.
     #
 
+ls -l $actual >&2 # ???? temporary
+echo actual:
+cat $actual
+echo end of actual
+
     sed -e 's/^Date:.*/Date:/' \
         -e 's/^Resent-Date:.*/Resent-Date:/' \
         -e 's/^Message-ID:.*/Message-ID:/' "$actual" > "$actual".nodate
@@ -137,8 +122,6 @@ esac
 mhmail -nosend recipient@example.com -from sender@localhost \
   -server 127.0.0.1 -port $localport -body '' >"$actual" 2>"$actual_err"
 
-tmpfil=`head -1 $actual | sed -e 's/://'`
-
 cat > "$expected" <<EOF
 To: recipient@example.com
 From: sender@localhost