E2E Email Testing with Playwright — No Gmail Config Required

Testing password reset flows, invitation emails, and verification links end-to-end means reading real emails in your test suite. The traditional approach — Gmail catch-all, forwarding rules, provider APIs — is fragile and tedious. Nylas CLI gives you managed catch-all inboxes and one command to poll for messages. Parse JSON in Playwright, verify content, extract links, click them. No OAuth setup, no shared inbox pollution. The old way Configure catch-all inboxes in Gmail or Microsoft Set up forwarding rules and hope they don't break Use provider-specific APIs (Gmail API, Graph API) to read mail Share a single inbox across tests and filter by subject tokens Hit rate limits when running tests frequently The new way # Create a catch-all inbox (one-time) nylas inbound create "e2e-*@your-org.nylas.email" # Poll for messages in your test nylas inbound messages inbox_abc123 --json --limit 20 # Read full body with HTML nylas email read msg_xyz123 inbox_abc123 --json Every email matching e2e-*