[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49815: Suggestion for adding site health test

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#49815: Suggestion for adding site health test
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 Reporter:  agla             |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Site Health      |     Version:  5.3.2
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Changes (by Clorith):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi there, and welcome to the WordPress trac!

 Unfortunately, to test emails, you need to actually send a message.
 There's no reliable way to send an email automatically and verify that it
 was sent as expected. It would be possible to time it, but then you'd
 still need a recipient, and it could not be a scheduled event like other
 checks.

 As for the hostname being qualified or not, this is also different from
 server to server, as it is possible to set up a server to work wit ha non-
 qualified one for internal reference purpose.

 This is a prime opportunity to test through a plugin though, the
 [https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/ Health Check plugin] already
 has a tool for testing email functionality, and extending it to test for
 timing as well seems like a good direction.

 I've opened https://github.com/WordPress/health-check/issues/376 for this
 purpose.

 As the issue it self is not really solvable by core, I'm closing the
 ticket it self (unfortunately the keyword for that resolution is
 `invalid`, although the intent and problem are both valid, so apologies
 for the confusing terminology there).

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