test email

An email, usually very short, sent for the purpose of testing whether the email system is working. The sender's purpose may be:
- to find out whether the sender's outgoing email is configured correctly
- to troubleshoot the end-to-end connection between a sender and recipient

If the sender is able to find his solution with no response from the recipient, the test email will usually contain a terse instruction like "ignore this email."

If the sender needs a response from the recipient in order to complete the test, then the test email will say something like "let me know if you got this."

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subject: testing...

Did you get this?

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subject: test 2

please ignore - just a test - M

by vanilla g-lotto December 19, 2004

Testmail

to test a person's email address by sending a message to it with the subject line reading "test mail". It means to repsond to it as soon as possible to ensure that the owner of the email address received it

For example, Chuck gives Boots an email address over the phone and sends him a "testmail." Boot receives it and lets Chuck know of it over the phone or by responding to it

by jeffersonson November 30, 2018