In this article, you are going to learn how to send google mail in Apache JMeter. You may ask, what is the necessity of sending emails in JMeter. When I working for a gig, there was a requirement to trigger emails when the response contains the error message. The client wants to trigger emails to his google mail box. Now we will see how to accomplish it in JMeter.
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Send Google mail in Apache JMeter
JMeter has a vast variety of samplers which makes us expedite the process of scripting. To send emails using SMTP/SMTPS protocol, JMeter has SMTP sampler. To add SMTP sampler, right click on appropriate item in your test plan > Add > Sampler > SMTP Sampler.
SMTP sampler has various settings which will trigger emails in a secured connection. Below is the snapshot which will send emails to Google mail.
Following settings are valid in JMeter which will trigger the email to Google mail.
- Server: smtp.googlemail.com
- Port: 587
- Address From/To: Valid Gmail ID
- Auth: Valid username and password
- Select Use StartTLS under Security Settings
- Enter valid Subject Line and Message
Save your test plan and execute it. You will get errors in your listener. All you need to do is add below code in your jmeter.bat file. Please take a backup before you make any changes to bat file.
- Open your jmeter.bat in your favorite editor (I prefer notepad++)
- Find below string
set ARGS=
- Replace it with below string
set ARGS=%DUMP% %HEAP% %NEW% %SURVIVOR% %TENURING% %RMIGC% %PERM% %DDRAW% %IPV4%
- Before the above line add set IPV4=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
- It should like as shown below
set IPV4=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
set ARGS=%DUMP% %HEAP% %NEW% %SURVIVOR% %TENURING% %RMIGC% %PERM% %DDRAW% %IPV4%
Save the test plan and execute the script. You will get an error again. This time, you need to change the settings to your Google mail account.
Google Mail Settings
Go to https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and turn on Access for less secure apps.Â
Please note that if you enabled two-step authentication in your Gmail account, then you may need to disable it.
Now go back to your JMeter script, and execute the script. Emails will be triggered to your Google mail. Make sure that you have added appropriate Regular Express Extractor and If Controller samplers.
Regular Express Extractor enables you to extract the response and If Controller runs only if the condition satisfies i.e. if any error message occurs it triggers the SMTP sampler as shown below.
I hope above tutorial on how to send Google mail in Apache JMeter helped you and you learnt few tricks. Please share this article with your friends. Sharing is caring.