diff --git a/apps/susimail/build.xml b/apps/susimail/build.xml
index 1df5e1129b..d8f9221830 100644
--- a/apps/susimail/build.xml
+++ b/apps/susimail/build.xml
@@ -53,7 +53,25 @@
             </classpath>
         </javac>
     </target>
-    <target name="jar" depends="compile, war" />
+
+    <!-- jar (not war) for testing only -->
+    <target name="jar" depends="compile, bundle, warUpToDate, listChangedFiles" >
+        <!-- set if unset -->
+        <property name="workspace.changes.tr" value="" />
+        <copy file="src/susimail.properties" todir="src/WEB-INF/classes" />
+        <jar destfile="susimail.jar"
+             basedir="src/WEB-INF/classes">
+            <manifest>
+                <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="${full.version}" />
+                <attribute name="Built-By" value="${build.built-by}" />
+                <attribute name="Build-Date" value="${build.timestamp}" />
+                <attribute name="Base-Revision" value="${workspace.version}" />
+                <attribute name="Workspace-Changes" value="${workspace.changes.tr}" />
+                <attribute name="X-Compile-Source-JDK" value="${javac.version}" />
+                <attribute name="X-Compile-Target-JDK" value="${javac.version}" />
+            </manifest>
+        </jar>
+    </target>
 
     <target name="listChangedFiles" depends="warUpToDate" if="shouldListChanges" >
         <exec executable="mtn" outputproperty="workspace.changes" errorproperty="mtn.error2" failifexecutionfails="false" >
@@ -152,6 +170,7 @@
     <target name="clean">
     	<delete dir="src/WEB-INF/classes"/>
     	<delete file="susimail.war"/>
+    	<delete file="susimail.jar"/>
     	<delete dir="build"/>
     </target>
     <target name="cleandep" depends="clean" />
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index a0f4c57260..b0272cdb06 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -313,6 +313,12 @@
         <copy file="apps/susimail/susimail.war" todir="build/" />
     </target>
 
+    <!-- jar (not war) for testing only -->
+    <target name="buildSusiMailJar" depends="buildCore, buildJetty" >
+        <ant dir="apps/susimail/" target="jar" />
+        <copy file="apps/susimail/susimail.jar" todir="build/" />
+    </target>
+
     <target name="buildSusiDNS" depends="buildCore, buildJetty, buildImagegen, buildAddressbook" >
         <ant dir="apps/susidns/src" target="all" />
         <copy file="apps/susidns/src/susidns.war" todir="build/" />
@@ -1807,11 +1813,18 @@
         <!-- note there are no router scala tests yet -->
         <ant dir="router/java/" target="scalatest.test" />
     </target>
-    <target name="test" depends="buildProperties, jbigi" >
-        <!-- both junit and scala -->
+    <!-- both junit and scala -->
+    <target name="test" depends="testCore, testRouter, testMinistreaming, testStreaming" />
+    <target name="testCore" depends="buildProperties, jbigi" >
         <ant dir="core/java/" target="test" />
+    </target>
+    <target name="testRouter" depends="buildProperties, jbigi" >
         <ant dir="router/java/" target="test" />
+    </target>
+    <target name="testMinistreaming" depends="buildProperties, jbigi" >
         <ant dir="apps/ministreaming/java/" target="test" />
+    </target>
+    <target name="testStreaming" depends="buildProperties" >
         <ant dir="apps/streaming/java/" target="test" />
     </target>
     <target name="scalatest.report" depends="buildProperties" >