I have a test script that pushes a web site through a process that generates an email, and then uses the Mail Reader Sampler to check to see if the email came in. I'm currently using a Constant Timer to wait 10 seconds for the email to come in, and that's working fine. However, I want to handle cases where it takes more than 10 seconds for the email to get delivered - I'd like to wait up to a minute or two for worst case scenarios. But I don't want a constant delay equal to my worst case mail delivery time. So I'm wondering if there's a way to make the Mail Reader Sampler check for new mail and return as soon as it has some, but give up after a certain amount of time if there's no new email? That way the test would run as fast as possible, but handle the occasional long delay in email delivery.
Do I need to create my own custom version of the Mail Reader Sampler or is there a way to achieve the same effect using existing JMeter machinery? David
