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Add mail sender support for spring-boot-testcontainers

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type: enhancement
Dominant language
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Description

Mail catcher is good solution to test email sending by SMTP, such as:

It will be good to add MailConnectionDetails support to make email sending test easy with mail catcher container.

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Research direction

Start in the spring-boot-testcontainers support area and trace how MailConnectionDetails is created for containerized services. Compare the listed mail catcher containers and verify the expected SMTP connection details; done means mail sending tests can connect through a supported mail catcher container.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring-boot
Domain
backend, testing
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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