diff -r 9b4de34ad394 -r 97095348b3ee cubicweb/sobjects/test/unittest_notification.py
--- a/cubicweb/sobjects/test/unittest_notification.py	Thu Feb 11 21:59:49 2016 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/sobjects/test/unittest_notification.py	Wed Feb 17 13:45:34 2016 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
 # copyright 2003-2014 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
 # contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
 #
@@ -16,47 +15,10 @@
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
 # with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""Tests for notification sobjects"""
 
-from socket import gethostname
-
-from logilab.common.testlib import unittest_main, TestCase
 from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC, MAILBOX
 
-from cubicweb.mail import construct_message_id, parse_message_id
-
-class MessageIdTC(TestCase):
-    def test_base(self):
-        msgid1 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21)
-        msgid2 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21)
-        self.assertNotEqual(msgid1, msgid2)
-        self.assertNotIn('&', msgid1)
-        self.assertNotIn('=', msgid1)
-        self.assertNotIn('/', msgid1)
-        self.assertNotIn('+', msgid1)
-        values = parse_message_id(msgid1, 'testapp')
-        self.assertTrue(values)
-        # parse_message_id should work with or without surrounding <>
-        self.assertEqual(values, parse_message_id(msgid1[1:-1], 'testapp'))
-        self.assertEqual(values['eid'], '21')
-        self.assertIn('timestamp', values)
-        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id(msgid1[1:-1], 'anotherapp'), None)
-
-    def test_notimestamp(self):
-        msgid1 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21, False)
-        msgid2 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21, False)
-        values = parse_message_id(msgid1, 'testapp')
-        self.assertEqual(values, {'eid': '21'})
-
-    def test_parse_message_doesnt_raise(self):
-        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id('oijioj@bla.bla', 'tesapp'), None)
-        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id('oijioj@bla', 'tesapp'), None)
-        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id('oijioj', 'tesapp'), None)
-
-
-    def test_nonregr_empty_message_id(self):
-        for eid in (1, 12, 123, 1234):
-            msgid1 = construct_message_id('testapp', eid, 12)
-            self.assertNotEqual(msgid1, '<@testapp.%s>' % gethostname())
 
 class NotificationTC(CubicWebTC):
 
@@ -67,7 +29,7 @@
                         'WHERE U eid %(x)s', {'x': urset[0][0]})
             req.execute('INSERT CWProperty X: X pkey "ui.language", X value "fr", X for_user U '
                         'WHERE U eid %(x)s', {'x': urset[0][0]})
-            req.cnx.commit() # commit so that admin get its properties updated
+            req.cnx.commit()  # commit so that admin get its properties updated
             finder = self.vreg['components'].select('recipients_finder',
                                                     req, rset=urset)
             self.set_option('default-recipients-mode', 'none')
@@ -76,7 +38,8 @@
             self.assertEqual(finder.recipients(), [(u'admin@logilab.fr', 'fr')])
             self.set_option('default-recipients-mode', 'default-dest-addrs')
             self.set_option('default-dest-addrs', 'abcd@logilab.fr, efgh@logilab.fr')
-            self.assertEqual(list(finder.recipients()), [('abcd@logilab.fr', 'en'), ('efgh@logilab.fr', 'en')])
+            self.assertEqual(list(finder.recipients()),
+                             [('abcd@logilab.fr', 'en'), ('efgh@logilab.fr', 'en')])
 
     def test_status_change_view(self):
         with self.admin_access.web_request() as req:
@@ -99,5 +62,7 @@
             self.assertEqual(email.subject,
                              'status changed CWUser #%s (admin)' % u.eid)
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    from logilab.common.testlib import unittest_main
     unittest_main()