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+@javascript
+Feature: private messages
+    In order to be talkative
+    As a User
+    I want to converse with people
+
+  Background:
+    Given a user with username "bob"
+    And a user named "Alice Awesome" with email "alice@alice.alice"
+    When I sign in as "bob@bob.bob"
+    And a user with username "bob" is connected with "Alice_Awesome"
+
+    And I am on the conversations page
+
+  Scenario: send a message
+    Given I follow "New Message"
+    And I wait for the ajax to finish
+    And I fill in "contact_autocomplete" with "Alice"
+    And I press the first ".as-result-item" within ".as-results"
+    And I fill in "conversation_subject" with "Greetings"
+    And I fill in "conversation_text" with "hello, alice!"
+    And I press "Send"
+    And I wait for the ajax to finish
+    Then I should see "Greetings" within "#conversation_inbox"
+    And I should see "Greetings" within "#conversation_show"
+    And I should see "hello, alice!" within ".stream"