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Number of retries

Open Suncatcher opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

How many retries do forwarder to deliver the message to the final recipient if any? Can this number be increased? What if the recipient address is unavailable? Do messages get lost?

Suncatcher avatar May 27 '18 16:05 Suncatcher

This tool is very simple and it doesn't solve retry when the script failed.

But, you can monitoring AWS Lambda and when fail, you can find a very detailed log in CloudWatch. And e-mail still keeps in S3, you can re-send it manually.

But when e-mail sending failed to Soft Bounce reason (for example: server temporarily unavailable), SES will be trying it again multiple times (more info).

jakubboucek avatar May 28 '18 05:05 jakubboucek

But when e-mail sending failed to Soft Bounce reason (for example: server temporarily unavailable), SES will be trying it again multiple times

Well, yesterday it didn't do this and I had to re-send manually. Does non-existent address is a Soft Bounce reason? :)

This tool is very simple and it doesn't solve retry when the script failed.

Poor. All in all, I'm gonna rewrite your tool in Python :)

Suncatcher avatar May 28 '18 06:05 Suncatcher

Does non-existent address is a Soft Bounce reason? :)

Soft are only temporary reasons. Non-existent recipient's address is clasifies as hard-bounce, because can not be assumed the mailbox will be created in five minutes.

jakubboucek avatar May 28 '18 06:05 jakubboucek