Subject: ETT b.1 IMAP test mailboxes on james.healthit.gov are empty (IMAP Tests 21, 27-31): request a refill before our Drummond test on 29 October Hello, We are certifying 170.315(b)(1) with Drummond. Our live test is on 29 October 2026

[Ted Sanders]

Hello,

We are certifying §170.315(b)(1) with Drummond. Our live test is on 29 October 2026, and we receive with the SMTP-IMAP edge protocol. The mailboxes the receive tests read on james.healthit.gov don't hold the test messages, so we can't run IMAP Tests 21 or 27–31.

On 20 October our system connected to james.healthit.gov (IMAP 143, STARTTLS, PLAIN), logged in, and read each mailbox normally. We found:

• imaptesting: the FOLDER and folder2 folders that IMAP Test 21 reads don't exist, even after pressing Run. Its folders are INBOX, Archive, Drafts, Junk Email, Outbox, Sent, Sent Items, Spam and Trash. Its INBOX does hold the messages IMAP Tests 19, 20 and 24 use.
• xdmmimetypes, multipleattachments, brokenrefstylesheet, invalidstylesheet, xdmbadxhtml and negativetestingccds: empty in every folder. xdmmimetypes was still empty after pressing Run on IMAP Test 27.
• b1-ambulatory: five messages from met...@ett.healthit.gov dated 9 April 2026, subject "null". Each is S/MIME encrypted (enveloped-data) to a certificate issued by EMR Direct Developer Sandbox SubCA3. They look like another tester's leftovers, and nobody but that certificate's holder can open them.

Another developer reported the same problem in the Edge Test Tool Google Group on 8 and 12 October ("b.1 IMAP Tests 27–31: mailboxes on james.healthit.gov are empty…"). Drummond's test lab asked there on 16 October for a resolution, and the thread has no answer yet. Drummond has told us that (b)(1) testing may not be completed unless this is resolved.

Could you please:

1. refill the IMAP test mailboxes above, including b1-ambulatory and negativetestingccds, with their test messages;
2. create the FOLDER and folder2 folders, with their messages, on imaptesting;
3. let us know when that's done. Also, is there a way for a proctor to request a refresh during a session, if another vendor's test empties a shared mailbox?

Thank you,

Ted Sanders

Project Manager

(410)387-0742

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[Sai Valluripalli]

This is done. Please try now.

Thank you,

Sai Valluripalli

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[Ted Sanders]

Hi Sai and team,

Thank you for refilling the mailboxes. We checked each account on james.healthit.gov this afternoon (22 October) over IMAP with STARTTLS and the published test login, read-only. Several are now loaded, and a few still look empty.

Now loaded:

• negativetestingccds@: 33 messages (IMAP 31, negative tests)
• xdmmimetypes@: 2 messages (IMAP 27)
• multipleattachments@: 2 messages (IMAP 28)
• xdmbadxhtml@: 1 message (IMAP 30)

Still empty or missing:

• imaptesting@ (IMAP 21): there is still no "FOLDER" or "folder2". The account's folders are INBOX, Archive, Drafts, Junk Email, Outbox, Sent, Sent Items, Spam and Trash, and a STATUS on either name returns "NO STATUS failed". INBOX has 7 messages, the same as on 20 October.
• brokenrefstylesheet@ (IMAP 29a): 0 messages.
• invalidstylesheet@ (IMAP 29b): 0 messages.
• b1-ambulatory@ (IMAP 31, b.1 ambulatory payloads): 5 messages. On 20 October this account held five messages from met...@ett.healthit.gov dated 9 April 2026, subject "null", each S/MIME-encrypted to an "EMR Direct Developer Sandbox SubCA3" certificate. An edge system can't decrypt those, so they don't look like the intended test content. We haven't confirmed whether today's five are the same messages. Could you check, and load the b.1 ambulatory payloads if they are?

Could the IMAP 21 folders, the two stylesheet accounts and b1-ambulatory@ be loaded as well? Our Drummond live test is on 29 October, so anything you can do before then would help a great deal.

One more thing: because these accounts are shared by every vendor, a system that deletes mail after reading it could empty them again before our session. If there's a way to keep them filled through the 29th, or to give us our own copies, we'd be glad of it.

Thank you,

Ted Sanders

Project Manager

(410)387-0742

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[Ted Sanders]

Sai,

I am just checking the status of this request.

Thank you,

Ted Sanders

Project Manager

(410)387-0742

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From: Ted Sanders <tsan...@aitrcm.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2026 10:00 AM
To: Sai Valluripalli <digitalh...@gmail.com>

[Ted Sanders]

Sai,

I am just checking the status of the mailboxes.  I have testing on Thursday and I need it to be updated.

Thank you,

Ted Sanders

Project Manager

(410)387-0742

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From: Ted Sanders <tsan...@aitrcm.com>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2026 12:49 PM

[Sai Valluripalli]

Will update it today.

Thank you,

Sai Valluripalli

[Sai Valluripalli]

This is done. Please let us know if there is anything else missing.

Thank you,

Sai Valluripalli

[Ted Sanders]

Hi Sai and team,

Thank you for refilling the mailboxes. Every account now has messages, including FOLDER and folder2.

When we read them, we found that only the first message in each account is well-formed MIME. Every message after it arrives without a Content-Type header.

• The first message in each account: Content-Type multipart/mixed, with the test file as an attachment. For example, b1-ambulatory@ UID 6 is application/xml with the filename 170.315_b1_toc_amb_rn_r21_sample2_v10.xml.
• Every later message: the header has MIME-Version: 1.0 but no Content-Type, so a receiver has to read it as text/plain. The body starts with the multipart boundary line and the attachment's own Content-Disposition header, then the file, all as plain text. For example, b1-ambulatory@ UID 7, which should carry 170.315_b1_toc_amb_r11_sample1_v8.xml.
• Which messages: 39 in all.
• b1-ambulatory@ UIDs 7–11: 5 of the 6 b.1 payloads.
• negativetestingccds@ UIDs 2–33: 32 of the 33 negative test files.
• multipleattachments@ UID 15 (IMAP 28).
• xdmmimetypes@ UID 6, "octect.zip" (IMAP 27).
• Shared Message-IDs: all the messages in an account have the same Message-ID. For example, every message in b1-ambulatory@ is 63390.1.1793036143381.JavaMail.savaralasandeep@WAS-6FWGK03T6. Our guess is that one message was sent repeatedly and lost its headers after the first send, but we can't confirm that from our side.

Our system files each message exactly as it arrives, so it can't read the file in any of these 39 as a document. Could each file be sent again as its own well-formed message, with its own Message-ID? Our Drummond session is on 29 October, so anything before then would help a great deal.

Thank you,

Ted Sanders

Project Manager

(410)387-0742

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From: Sai Valluripalli <digitalh...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2026 1:45 PM

[Ted Sanders]

Sai,

Please disregard this email.

Thank you,

Ted Sanders

Project Manager

(410)387-0742

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From: Ted Sanders <tsan...@aitrcm.com>
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2026 4:56 PM

[Ted Sanders]

Hi Sai and team,

Thank you for the resend on 26 October; every message now arrives well-formed. One more request: two accounts carry an older edition of ONC's (b)(1) test files than the current test data (onc-healthit/ccda-uscdi-certification-testdata).

• b1-ambulatory@ (IMAP 31): five of the six are the v10/v8 files (the R2.1 CCD and Referral Note for Samples 1 and 2, and the R1.1 CCD), not the current USCDI v3 versions.
• negativetestingccds@ (IMAP 31, negative tests): 13 of the 33 are older: the five NT_CCDS_Sample files instead of NT_USCDIv3_Sample1–5, and eight r11 files at v2 instead of v3. The other 20 match the current files.

Our Drummond proctor has asked for the current files. Could these two accounts be loaded with them? Our session is on 19 November.