Moto: Feature request: Make it easier to assert against sent SES emails

[bjmc]

As a feature request, it would be nice if the Mock SES backend kept the actual email content in the sent_messages list, and made it easy to make assertions against them.

I think two things would be needed:

• The Message class would have to capture actual content of the emails.

• The backend would have to expose those messages somehow so test code could assert against them.

I'm imagining something like

with fake_ses() as mock_ses:
    ... # tests that trigger sending email
    assert '[email protected]' in mock_ses.sent_messages[0].recipients

[r1b]

@bjmc The SES backend state is available on the SES module, e.g:

from boto.ses import ses_backend
assert ses_backend.sent_messages[0]

[spulec]

Going to close this. @r1b 's suggestion is our current best practice.

[tomviner]

@bjmc The SES backend state is available on the SES module, e.g:

from boto.ses import ses_backend
assert ses_backend.sent_messages[0]

For future readers, ses_backend is available on moto not boto:

from moto.ses import ses_backend
#    ^^^^
assert ses_backend.sent_messages[0]