This package provides a comprehensive set of Cypress commands designed specifically for interacting with Mailpit, a popular mail testing tool. This package supports TypeScript out of the box.
- Get all mails from Mailpit
- Search mails from Mailpit
- Get mails by subject
- Get a single mail from Mailpit
- Send a mail from Mailpit
- Delete all mails from Mailpit
- Get the subject of a mail
- Get the body of a mail
- Get the sender of a mail
- Get the recipients of a mail
- Get the attachments of a mail
- Get the spam assassin summary of a mail
- TypeScript support
- Basic Auth support
- Custom Mailpit URL
- Many more to come
Install this package:
# npm
npm install --save-dev cypress-mailpit
# yarn
yarn add --dev cypress-mailpit
# pnpm
pnpm add -D cypress-mailpit
Include this package into your Cypress command file:
// cypress/support/commands
import 'cypress-mailpit';
Add the base URL of your Mailpit installation in the e2e
block of your cypress.config.ts
/ cypress.config.js
:
export default defineConfig({
projectId: "****",
env: {
MAILPIT_URL: "http://localhost:8025/",
},
});
Add MAILPIT_USERNAME
and MAILPIT_PASSWORD
in Cypress env config:
{
"MAILPIT_USERNAME": "mailpit username",
"MAILPIT_PASSWORD": "mailpit password"
}
Yields an array of all the mails stored in Mailpit starting from start
index up to limit
.
cy.mailpitGetAllMails().then((result) => {
expect(result).to.have.property('messages');
expect(result.messages).to.have.length(numberOfEmails);
expect(result.messages).to.be.an('array');
expect(result).to.have.property('tags');
expect(result).to.have.property('messages_count', numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('start');
expect(result).to.have.property('total', numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('count', numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('unread');
});
Searches all mails from Mailpit using the given query and yields an array of matching mails starting from start
index up to limit
.
For more information about the query syntax, refer to the Mailpit documentation.
cy.mailpitSearchEmails('Test').then((result) => {
expect(result).to.have.property('messages');
expect(result.messages).to.have.length(numberOfEmails);
expect(result.messages).to.be.an('array');
expect(result.messages[0].Snippet).to.contain('Test');
expect(result.messages).to.have.length(numberOfEmails);
expect(result.messages).to.be.an('array');
expect(result).to.have.property('messages_count', numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('total', 3);
expect(result).to.have.property('count', numberOfEmails);
});
Fetches all mails from Mailpit with the given subject starting from start
index up to limit
.
cy.mailpitGetEmailsBySubject('My Test').then((result) => {
expect(result).to.have.property('messages');
expect(result.messages).to.have.length(numberOfEmails);
expect(result.messages).to.be.an('array');
expect(result).to.have.property('messages_count', numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('total', 2 * numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('count', numberOfEmails);
});
Yields the mail with the given ID. If no ID is provided, yields the latest email.
cy.mailpitGetMail().then((result) => {
expect(result).to.have.property('ID');
expect(result).to.have.property('MessageID');
expect(result).to.have.property('From');
expect(result).to.have.property('To');
expect(result).to.have.property('Subject');
});
Sends an email with the given options. If no options are provided, sends a default email.
cy
.mailpitSendMail({ to: '[email protected]', subject: 'Hello', text: 'Test message' })
.should('have.property', 'ID');
Checks if there are any emails in Mailpit with the given subject. Yields a boolean value.
cy.mailpitHasEmailsBySubject('My Test').should('be.true');
Fetches all emails from Mailpit sent to the given email address. Yields an array of matching emails.
cy.mailpitGetEmailsBySubject('[email protected]').then((result) => {
expect(result).to.have.property('messages');
expect(result.messages).to.have.length(numberOfEmails);
expect(result.messages).to.be.an('array');
expect(result).to.have.property('messages_count', numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('total', 2 * numberOfEmails);
expect(result).to.have.property('count', numberOfEmails);
});
Checks if there are any emails in Mailpit sent to the given email address. Yields a boolean value.
cy.mailpitHasEmailsByTo('[email protected]');
Checks if there are emails in Mailpit with the given subject. Yields a boolean value.
cy.mailpitNotHasEmailsBySubject('My Test').should('be.true');
Checks if there are any emails in Mailpit sent to the given email address. Yields a boolean value.
cy.mailpitNotHasEmailsByTo('[email protected]');
Deletes all stored mails from Mailpit.
cy.mailpitDeleteAllEmails();
Yields the text body of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetMailTextBody()
.should('contain', 'Message Body');
Yields the HTML body of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetMailHTMlBody()
.should('contain', '<p>Message Body</p>');
Yields the sender address of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetFromAddress()
.should('eq', '[email protected]');
Yields the recipient addresses of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetRecipientAddress()
.should('contain', '[email protected]');
Yields the subject of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetSubject()
.should('eq', 'My Subject');
Yields the list of all filenames of the attachments of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetAttachments()
.should('have.length', 2)
.should('include', 'sample.pdf');
Yields the SpamAssassin summary of the current mail.
cy
.mailpitGetMail()
.mailpitGetMailSpamAssainSummary()
.should('have.property', 'score');
Make sure the mailpit server is running. and set the env in cypress.config.ts
Install dependencies.
npm install
Build the package
npm run build
Run cypress tests
npm run cy:run