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feat(email): every email is a row in email_outbox until the server accepts it (#5506)
#5506 "Email outbox: a table of outgoing email and a sender that retries
until accepted, for up to an hour" (milestone 501).

- email_outbox (migration 0042) holds each message per recipient, its
  words, its state (held / pending / sending / sent / failed), attempts and
  the server's last answer. email_outbox_events links alert events for
  #5507.
- core/outbox.py: enqueue; a sender task every 15 s claims what is due
  (SKIP LOCKED, stale claims released), sends the batch over one
  connection with no session held, and settles each row:
  - accepted -> sent;
  - a 5xx refusal -> failed at once with the server's words;
  - no connection, a timeout, a 4xx -> retried after 30 s, 1, 2, 5, 10,
    15 min, the last try at the hour, then failed;
  - a test (retry=False) settles on its first answer.
  It runs on startup, so a row left by a restart goes out at boot.
- notifications.smtp_open is the one place a connection is opened.
- mail.message takes the html part as optional.
- cleanup ages email_outbox rows on the data window.

Senders move onto it in #5507 and #5508.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 15:53:53 -04:00

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"""The email outbox's decisions (#5506): which failures are worth another
try, how long to wait, when to give up, and what one connection's batch
reports per message. The table and the sender's ticks are in
tests/integration/test_email_outbox.py."""
import smtplib
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from email.message import EmailMessage
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
import pytest
from steward.core import mail, outbox
from steward.models.outbox import EmailOutbox
NOW = datetime(2026, 10, 9, 12, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
def _row(**kw) -> EmailOutbox:
base = dict(kind="report", recipient="ann@example.com", retry=True, attempts=0,
state="sending", first_attempt_at=None, claimed_at=NOW)
return EmailOutbox(**{**base, **kw})
@pytest.mark.parametrize("exc, kind", [
(smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused({"a@x": (550, b"no such user")}), "permanent"),
(smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused({"a@x": (550, b"no"), "b@x": (451, b"later")}), "temporary"),
(smtplib.SMTPDataError(554, b"rejected as spam"), "permanent"),
(smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused(553, b"not yours", "steward@x"), "permanent"),
(smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError(535, b"bad credentials"), "permanent"),
(smtplib.SMTPDataError(451, b"greylisted, try later"), "temporary"),
(smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected("gone"), "temporary"),
(ConnectionRefusedError(111, "refused"), "temporary"),
(TimeoutError(), "temporary"),
(smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError("STARTTLS extension not supported"), "permanent"),
(ValueError("no words"), "permanent"),
])
def test_a_refusal_is_final_and_anything_that_may_pass_is_retried(exc, kind):
assert outbox.classify(exc) == kind
def test_backoff_grows_then_holds_at_its_last_step():
assert [outbox.backoff(n) for n in range(1, 9)] == [30, 60, 120, 300, 600, 900, 900, 900]
def test_reason_is_what_the_server_said():
assert outbox.reason(smtplib.SMTPDataError(554, b"5.7.1 rejected\r\n as spam")) \
== "554 5.7.1 rejected as spam"
assert outbox.reason(smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused({"a@x": (550, b"no such user")})) \
== "a@x: 550 no such user"
assert outbox.reason(TimeoutError()) == "The mail server didn't answer in time"
def test_accepted_is_sent():
row = _row()
outbox.settle(row, None, NOW)
assert (row.state, row.sent_at, row.attempts, row.claimed_at) == ("sent", NOW, 1, None)
assert row.first_attempt_at == NOW and row.next_attempt_at is None
def test_a_refusal_fails_at_once_with_the_servers_words():
row = _row()
outbox.settle(row, smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused({"ann@example.com": (550, b"no such user")}), NOW)
assert row.state == "failed" and row.next_attempt_at is None
assert row.last_error == "ann@example.com: 550 no such user"
def test_a_temporary_failure_waits_and_tries_again():
row = _row()
outbox.settle(row, smtplib.SMTPDataError(451, b"try later"), NOW)
assert row.state == "pending" and row.next_attempt_at == NOW + timedelta(seconds=30)
later = NOW + timedelta(seconds=30)
outbox.settle(row, ConnectionRefusedError(), later)
assert row.attempts == 2 and row.next_attempt_at == later + timedelta(seconds=60)
assert row.first_attempt_at == NOW
def test_the_last_try_lands_at_the_hour_and_then_it_fails():
row = _row(attempts=7, first_attempt_at=NOW)
near = NOW + timedelta(seconds=3300)
outbox.settle(row, TimeoutError(), near)
# 900 s would overshoot the hour: the try is pulled back to it.
assert row.state == "pending" and row.next_attempt_at == NOW + timedelta(seconds=3600)
outbox.settle(row, TimeoutError(), NOW + timedelta(seconds=3600))
assert row.state == "failed"
assert row.last_error == "The mail server didn't answer in time (gave up after an hour of retries)"
def test_a_test_send_settles_on_its_first_answer():
row = _row(kind="test", retry=False)
outbox.settle(row, ConnectionRefusedError(), NOW)
assert row.state == "failed" and row.last_error == "The mail server refused the connection"
def test_enqueue_keeps_the_readers_zone_and_holds_until_send_after():
added = []
class _Db:
add = added.append
ann = mail.Recipient("ann@example.com", ZoneInfo("America/New_York"), True, "ann")
now_row = outbox.enqueue(_Db, kind="report", to=ann, subject="s", text="t", now=NOW)
assert (now_row.state, now_row.next_attempt_at, now_row.tz, now_row.show_utc) == \
("pending", NOW, "America/New_York", True)
held = outbox.enqueue(_Db, kind="alert", to="bob@example.com",
send_after=NOW + timedelta(minutes=2), now=NOW)
assert (held.state, held.next_attempt_at, held.tz) == ("held", NOW + timedelta(minutes=2), "UTC")
assert added == [now_row, held]
class _FakeSMTP:
def __init__(self, answers):
self.answers, self.sent = list(answers), []
def __enter__(self):
return self
def __exit__(self, *exc):
return False
def send_message(self, msg):
answer = self.answers.pop(0)
if answer is not None:
raise answer
self.sent.append(msg)
def _msgs(n):
out = []
for i in range(n):
m = EmailMessage()
m["Subject"] = f"m{i}"
out.append(m)
return out
def test_one_connection_reports_each_message(monkeypatch):
from steward.core import notifications
smtp = _FakeSMTP([None, smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused({"b@x": (550, b"no")}), None])
monkeypatch.setattr(notifications, "smtp_open", lambda cfg: smtp)
out = outbox.deliver_sync({}, _msgs(3))
assert out[0] is None and isinstance(out[1], smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused) and out[2] is None
assert len(smtp.sent) == 2
def test_a_dropped_line_is_every_unsent_messages_outcome(monkeypatch):
from steward.core import notifications
gone = smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected("gone")
monkeypatch.setattr(notifications, "smtp_open", lambda cfg: _FakeSMTP([None, gone]))
out = outbox.deliver_sync({}, _msgs(4))
assert out[0] is None and out[1] is gone
assert all(isinstance(o, smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected) for o in out[2:]) and len(out) == 4
def test_no_connection_is_every_messages_outcome(monkeypatch):
from steward.core import notifications
refused = ConnectionRefusedError(111, "refused")
def _open(cfg):
raise refused
monkeypatch.setattr(notifications, "smtp_open", _open)
assert outbox.deliver_sync({}, _msgs(2)) == [refused, refused]