Attempt to send email should be retried if it fails

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
scala
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating the code path that sends email and inspect how sending failures are currently handled. Determine which temporary server failures should trigger waiting and retrying, then verify that validation no longer requires a full rerun when email delivery is temporarily unavailable.

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Description

enhancement good first issue

Currently, if sending email fails because the email server is temporarily offline or overloaded, the only choice of action is to rerun the whole validation. This can be very expensive, and may require manual intervention if the program is running as part of an automatic workflow.

It would be better if the program detected the error in sending email and did its own wait-and-retry loop. This would be pretty cheap and much better than failing.

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