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fix: surface invite-email send failures instead of swallowing them - #752
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sendInviteEmail awaited sendMail without returning its result, so callers always saw undefined instead of whether the send succeeded.
Await sendInviteEmail (previously fire-and-forget) and throw a TRPCError when it fails, on both the create and found-friend paths, so a retry after a failed invite doesn't silently no-op.
Add onError handlers to the invite mutation in AddMembers.tsx and SelectUserOrGroup.tsx so a failed invite email surfaces a toast instead of failing silently, and clean up the optimistic placeholder participant so it doesn't get stranded.
- Add onError to the AddMembers.tsx retry mutation so a second failure isn't silently swallowed (correctness, testing, reliability, adversarial reviewers). - Skip re-sending invite emails to friends who already have a verified account, so inviting an arbitrary existing user no longer triggers an unwanted email (api-contract, adversarial reviewers). - Simplify inviteFriend's disabled-invites check to a direct env.ENABLE_SENDING_INVITES check instead of string-matching an error message (code-quality/reuse reviewers). - Fix mailer.test.ts's mocking-pattern citation to point at the repo's actual jest.mock precedent (coherence reviewer).
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe invite flow now reports email delivery failures through typed tRPC error codes. The server upserts users by email, applies a 60-second invite cooldown, and awaits email delivery. The UI maps delivery errors to a specific message and retries adding the user without sending an invite. ChangesInvite delivery flow
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant UI as Invite UI
participant inviteFriend
participant claimInviteCooldown
participant sendInviteEmail
UI->>inviteFriend: Submit invite request
inviteFriend->>claimInviteCooldown: Claim cooldown for user
claimInviteCooldown-->>inviteFriend: Allow or reject request
inviteFriend->>sendInviteEmail: Send invite email
sendInviteEmail-->>inviteFriend: Return delivery result
inviteFriend-->>UI: Return success or formatted error code
UI->>inviteFriend: Retry with invite sending disabled
inviteFriend-->>UI: Return retry result
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to When SMTP stops responding, people inviting a member may wait a long time before seeing the delivery failure. Bound the mail delivery wait before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Delivery failures now reach callers, and recovery avoids sending another email. However, invitations can now be resent to existing unverified users. The cooldown limits each inviter-recipient pair only within one server process, leaving repeated unsolicited mail possible across accounts, restarts, or server instances. Retained concerns
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In `@src/components/AddExpense/SelectUserOrGroup.tsx`:
- Around line 60-63: Update the server-side inviteFriend error handling to
return a machine-readable cause for the dedicated email-delivery failure. In
src/components/AddExpense/SelectUserOrGroup.tsx lines 60-63, branch on that
cause: show errors.invite_email_failed only for delivery failures and use the
generic add-user error otherwise. In src/components/group/AddMembers.tsx lines
96-108, retry without email only for that same cause and avoid the SMTP error
for other failures.
In `@src/components/group/AddMembers.tsx`:
- Line 101: In the AddMembers mutation flow, capture inputValue.toLowerCase() in
a local email variable before the first mutate call, then reuse that captured
email for both mutation requests and any onError recovery so later input changes
cannot alter the invited address.
In `@src/server/api/routers/user.ts`:
- Line 77: Add rate limiting to the invite branch around sendInviteEmail so
repeated requests for the same unverified target cannot send SMTP messages
indefinitely. Enforce a cooldown scoped to both the inviter and target, or
persist an expiring invite token before invoking sendInviteEmail, while
preserving the existing behavior for eligible invitations.
- Line 90: Update the invite-email error logging around the delivery failure
handler to remove input.email from console.error. Log a masked address or
non-sensitive user identifier instead, while preserving the existing error
context.
In `@src/server/mailer.ts`:
- Line 69: Escape the inviter name before interpolating it into the HTML invite
email in the mailer flow. Apply the existing HTML-escaping helper or equivalent
to name, while leaving the surrounding message and URL handling unchanged.
In `@src/tests/mailer.test.ts`:
- Line 39: Organize the tests under sendInviteEmail by adding nested describe
blocks for the delivery, development-mode, and disabled-invite scenarios, while
keeping the existing test cases and assertions unchanged.
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Mirrors the existing zodError pattern in errorFormatter so callers can branch on a specific failure cause instead of message text.
The user-controlled inviter name was interpolated unescaped into the invite email's HTML body, letting an inviter inject markup into a recipient's inbox.
Add a per-target lastInvitedAt cooldown (atomic claim via a single conditional update, so concurrent requests can't both pass a read-then-write check) so repeated inviteFriend calls can't send unlimited SMTP messages to the same target. Also stop logging the raw recipient email address on send failure; log the user id instead.
…ent-side Both onError handlers now check the server's appErrorCode instead of showing the SMTP-specific toast for any inviteFriend failure. AddMembers.tsx also captures the submitted email once so an in-flight mutation can't be retargeted by a later edit to the input field. Includes a one-line comment-capitalization fix in trpc.ts picked up by the pre-commit lint-staged hook while formatting the batch.
…odule Both onError handlers duplicated the appErrorCode-to-toast-message mapping verbatim; extract it to src/lib/inviteErrors.ts alongside a shared InviteErrorCode constant so the router and both call sites share one source of truth instead of raw string literals.
…hrows - Replace findUnique-then-create with db.user.upsert so two concurrent invites for the same brand-new email can't both miss the lookup and hit the unique-constraint race (a raw, unclassified error that broke the client's error-cause discrimination). - Wrap sendInviteEmail in try/catch so an unexpected throw (e.g. from the Discord-webhook notification path) still surfaces as a clean INVITE_EMAIL_SEND_FAILED instead of an unhandled 500.
…ture convention inviteErrors.ts (the toast-key/error-code mapping) had zero test coverage despite being pure, framework-free logic with no harness dependency, unlike the router/component call sites. Also restructure appError.test.ts and the new file to the project's documented nested describe/scenario convention, and switch two new functions to arrow functions per AGENTS.md's stated preference.
AddMembers.tsx already retries without re-sending the email and adds the participant when inviteFriend fails for a genuine invite-related reason, since the target row exists by the time this router can throw. SelectUserOrGroup.tsx previously only showed a toast and dropped the optimistic placeholder, leaving the participant unadded even though the row was created.
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In `@src/components/AddExpense/SelectUserOrGroup.tsx`:
- Line 61: Update the send_invite action in SelectUserOrGroup so it passes true
to onAddEmailClick, ensuring the resulting mutation uses sendInviteEmail: true
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Both buttons in SelectUserOrGroup called onAddEmailClick(false), so clicking "Send invite" silently added the friend without ever sending the invite email (CodeRabbit finding on the round-2 push).
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🟠 Major · Bound SMTP delivery before awaiting the invite result. · user.ts:102
src/server/api/routers/user.ts:102
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBound SMTP delivery before awaiting the invite result.
If the SMTP server stops responding,
inviteFriendwaits forsendInviteEmailbefore it can show the delivery error. The transport sets no timeouts; Nodemailer documents a two-minute connection timeout and a ten-minute socket inactivity timeout by default. Set SMTP timeouts that fit the request deadline. The five-second Discord timeout applies only after SMTP fails. (nodemailer.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 102: Set connection, greeting, and socket inactivity timeouts on the
Nodemailer SMTP transport used by sendInviteEmail so delivery cannot outlast the
inviteFriend request deadline; preserve the existing Discord fallback timeout
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| const INVITE_COOLDOWN_MS = 60_000; | |||
| const lastInviteAtByUserId = new Map<number, number>(); | |||
| const lastInviteAtByUserPair = new Map<string, number>(); | |||
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Let's narrow this key type down to ${number}:${number}
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Description
Fixes #722.
When SMTP is unavailable, inviting a friend by email now reports the delivery failure in the group and expense flows instead of appearing to succeed. A failed email can still leave the friend added, while unrelated errors use the generic message and do not trigger an email-recovery retry.
inviteFriendwaits for email delivery and reports a typed error when an unverified user's invite cannot be sent. Verified users do not receive a new invite email.escapeHtmlinsrc/lib/utils.ts, and failed-send logs use the user ID instead of the recipient's email address.connectionTimeout(10,000 ms),greetingTimeout(10,000 ms), andsocketTimeout(30,000 ms). Discord error reporting keeps its five-second timeout and cannot prevent the invite failure from reaching the caller.Verification
pnpm test --runInBand: 10 suites, 215 tests passed;tests/mailer.test.ts: 8 tests passed, including the transport-timeout assertion.pnpm tsgo --noEmit: passed.pnpm lint: 0 errors and 286 repository warnings.pnpm prettier --check src/server/mailer.ts tests/mailer.test.ts: passed.pnpm build --no-lint: passed. Next.js reported the existing top-level-await warning fromsrc/server/db.ts./addand/groups/[groupId]were skipped because the dev server migration hook could not connect to PostgreSQL atlocalhost:5432.AI contribution
Claude Code assisted with the original PR implementation. OpenAI Codex assisted with the revisions, including the SMTP timeout fix and its test update. The reviewed changes received correctness, standards, testing, maintainability, security, API-contract, reliability, adversarial, and prior-feedback review passes. Automated checks passed; maintainer review is still requested.
Remaining design limits and test gaps
src/components/AddExpense/UserInput.tsxis anotherinviteFriendconsumer without an error handler; it does not request email delivery today.appErrorCode, remain follow-up coverage.Demo
No screenshot. To reproduce the visible change, configure an invalid or unreachable
EMAIL_SERVER_HOST, request an invite, and confirm the client shows an error instead of silent success.Checklist
CONTRIBUTING.mdin its entiretySummary by CodeRabbit