WorldconVotingSystems / WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom
Handle retries in ballot emails
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Description
SMTPDataError: (421, b'Domain mail.seattlein2025.org is not allowed to send: daily request limit exceeded, try again after Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:52:37 UTC')
We made a delightful discovery that NomNom's emails to members might be rejected if the mail API failed due to exceeding a rolling send window, which can happen at high volume times if the email service has limits that don't meet our needs.
When we receive a backoff message like this -- it won't be great -- we should re-queue on some kind of backoff.
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the ballot email sending entry point and its handling of SMTPDataError, then determine how a backoff message can be re-queued. Done means emails rejected because of a rolling send limit are retried after a backoff rather than lost.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100