MIME parser test data

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I've just wrote MIME parser and tested it on 1000+ messages from my inbox, so looks like it's working well. However, most of these messages are private and I cannot use them in public unit tests or add them to VCS.

Are there any well-known/public sets of mail messages to be used for MIME parser unit testing?

I thought about extracting original MIME messages from public mailing lists by HTTP, but it will make test very slow and non-repeatable.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '12 at 07:03

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http://www.imc.org/mimetest/ is a repository for one such set of testing messages. Like the page details, such sets have been the targets for spammers in the past, so it could be one reason they're a bit hard to find.

answered Aug 13 '12 at 07:03

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But here's something for testing MIME validity one message at a time ... http://www.mimevalidator.net/ – designosis Oct 22 '14 at 11:32
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Although "Due to its abuse by spammers, the tool is no longer available" [(1)](https://web.archive.org/web/20151121062742/http://www.imc.org:80/mimetest/), the Wayback Machine captured the [source messages](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.imc.org/mimetest/MimeBack.tgz) (tgz) that imc.org had released before removing the service altogether. – medmunds Oct 23 '17 at 18:46

MIME parser test data

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