From a45ec2670df0c3a92f2d6b5657f24df87a66369c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jo=C3=A3o=20Calisto?= <joao.calisto@grafana.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 13:17:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore(tests): fix flaky SMTP test (#93031)

---
 pkg/services/notifications/smtp_test.go | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/services/notifications/smtp_test.go b/pkg/services/notifications/smtp_test.go
index e55bcd50639..78e9d76e454 100644
--- a/pkg/services/notifications/smtp_test.go
+++ b/pkg/services/notifications/smtp_test.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/textproto"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -301,6 +302,11 @@ func TestSmtpSend(t *testing.T) {
 		messages := srv.MessagesAndPurge()
 		assert.Len(t, messages, 3)
 
+		// sort for test consistency
+		sort.Slice(messages, func(i, j int) bool {
+			return messages[i].RcpttoRequestResponse()[0][0] < messages[j].RcpttoRequestResponse()[0][0]
+		})
+
 		for i, sentMsg := range messages {
 			rcpts := sentMsg.RcpttoRequestResponse()
 			assert.EqualValues(t, [][]string{