Question

I am using Django on GAE. On my local development server I have associated a django view function with email receiving address:

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'^_ah/mail/(.*)', 'core.views.handle_email')
)

As far as I understand, core.views.handle_email now receives all of the incoming emails for my application. That actually works. I am able to see that it works by sending emails to my application from application console http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin/inboundmail. But this works only if I am logged in to my application. If I am not looged in, I cannot send any email from http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin/inboundmail. But I still need to test behavior of my application in this case.

So the exact question is: how do I test receiving emails when application is not logged in?

Answer 1

On App Engine (live), when an inbound mail is sent to your application, an admin login will be used to send the request, so I don’t think you need to worry about testing the “non-logged in” case.