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Honour the SES send rate per second and retry throttled sends - #454
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The "Send Rate" of an SES configuration ("the number of emails to send
per second") only set the BullMQ worker's concurrency. A send round trip
takes a fraction of a second, so `rate` workers in flight sent several
times `rate` mails a second, SES answered "Maximum sending rate
exceeded" for the rest, and the worker recorded those mails as FAILED
without a retry: they were lost.
The worker now carries a limiter of `rate` jobs per second next to the
concurrency, so the queue never starts more sends per second than SES
allows. Because a limiter is fixed at creation, a changed send rate
replaces the worker instead of updating its concurrency; the queue and
the jobs waiting in it are untouched, and the old worker closes once its
in-flight sends are done.
Email jobs get three attempts with exponential backoff. A throttled send
(TooManyRequestsException or any error the SDK marks as throttling) is
handed back to the queue while attempts remain and only fails the mail
on the last one; every other error still fails it at once, as before.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. WalkthroughEmail workers now apply a per-second quota alongside concurrency. When a region’s quota changes, the service replaces its worker while retaining the queue. Single and bulk email jobs use three attempts with exponential backoff. Recognized throttling errors are retried while attempts remain; other errors and exhausted throttling errors follow the existing failure-recording path. Unit tests cover worker limits, retries, failures, and successful sends. Priority: ➖ Normal Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Email sends can exceed the configured regional rate and encounter SES throttling. Resolve the rate-limit boundaries before merging unless that risk is explicitly accepted. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts`:
- Line 38: Update the email send flow near the `limiter` configuration so SES
calls pass through a shared regional rate gate immediately before
`sendRawEmail`; do not rely solely on BullMQ’s job-start limiter, since work
before the SES call can let sends overlap across batches.
- Line 38: Update the rate limiting in createWorker to account for each
recipient passed by executeEmail to sendRawEmail, including to, cc, and bcc, so
a multi-recipient job consumes one quota unit per recipient rather than one per
job.
- Line 129: Update the queue limiter configuration around transactionalQuota so
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Rate-limit SES calls, not only job starts.
BullMQ applies this limiter when jobs become active. executeEmail then performs database work and a limit check before sendRawEmail. If one batch waits on that work while another batch starts, their SES calls can occur in the same second and exceed the configured send rate. Apply a shared regional rate gate immediately before the SES call. (docs.bullmq.io)
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In `@apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts` at line 38, Update the
email send flow near the `limiter` configuration so SES calls pass through a
shared regional rate gate immediately before `sendRawEmail`; do not rely solely
on BullMQ’s job-start limiter, since work before the SES call can let sends
overlap across batches.
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Account for every SES recipient in the rate limiter.
createWorker limits job starts, but executeEmail passes to, cc, and bcc arrays to sendRawEmail. SES applies the send-rate quota per recipient, so a multi-recipient job can consume multiple quota units while consuming one limiter unit. Add recipient-based rate limiting or enforce the SES per-recipient quota before sending.
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In `@apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts` at line 38, Update the
rate limiting in createWorker to account for each recipient passed by
executeEmail to sendRawEmail, including to, cc, and bcc, so a multi-recipient
job consumes one quota unit per recipient rather than one per job.
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Checked both points against the code and SES's rules.
Job starts vs the SES call. The limiter bounds how many jobs a queue's workers may start per second. What runs between a job's start and its sendRawEmail is two or three primary-key reads and the limit check, milliseconds against a one-second window. A job whose reads straddle a second boundary lands its send in the next window, so a window can briefly hold a few more sends than max. That is the burst SES explicitly allows ("You can exceed this quota for short bursts, but not for sustained periods", Managing your Amazon SES sending limits), and a send that is still refused is retried by this PR. An in-process gate right before the SES call would hold for one process only; the BullMQ limiter lives in Redis and holds across every worker and instance of the queue, which is why the cap sits there. A second gate at the call would need a Redis token bucket of its own. I'd keep this PR to the limiter and the retry, and can follow up if the maintainers want that gate.
Recipients. Correct: SES counts recipients, the limiter counts jobs, and to, cc and bcc go out as one send, so a multi-recipient mail spends more rate than limiter. That was already so before this PR (nothing counted anything), and it is the case SES itself advises against (one SendEmail per recipient, same page). A per-recipient budget needs a limiter with a per-job cost, which BullMQ's does not have; a custom Redis bucket is a larger change than this fix. Added to the PR description as a limitation, with the retry as the net under it.
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@sefasenturk95, thanks for the detailed explanation. AWS confirms that SES permits short bursts above the sending rate. I withdraw the request for a second rate gate in this PR.
AWS also confirms that SES sending quotas count recipients, not messages. The BullMQ limiter still counts one job for a send with multiple to, cc, or bcc recipients. I agree that a shared per-recipient budget is a larger change, but documenting the limitation does not remove it. I’ll leave that finding open. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue?
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Learning: In `apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts`, the BullMQ limiter caps job starts across workers through Redis, not calls to `sendRawEmail`. Amazon SES permits short sending-rate bursts, but its sending quotas count recipients, including `to`, `cc`, and `bcc`, rather than messages. The current limiter counts one unit per job and does not enforce a per-recipient rate.
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@coderabbitai Yes, please open a follow-up issue for the per-recipient rate accounting (a send with several to, cc or bcc addresses counts once against the limiter and once per recipient at SES), so it is tracked separately from this PR.
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## Summary
The BullMQ limiter in `apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts` counts one queue job per unit of the configured SES send rate. `executeEmail` passes `to`, `cc`, and `bcc` to `sendRawEmail`, but SES counts each recipient against the send-rate quota. A multi-recipient send can therefore use more SES quota than the limiter reserves.
## Required change
Enforce a shared recipient-aware send-rate budget for each SES region near `sendRawEmail`. Count all `to`, `cc`, and `bcc` recipients in each send. Coordinate the budget across workers and application instances, and account for the transactional and marketing quotas without exceeding the regional SES rate. Preserve the existing throttling retry behavior.
## Acceptance criteria
- A send with multiple `to`, `cc`, or `bcc` recipients consumes one budget unit per recipient.
- Concurrent workers and application instances share the applicable regional budget.
- Tests cover multi-recipient jobs, concurrent sends, and retry behavior after SES throttling.
- The regional rate remains bounded when transactional and marketing sends run together.
Tracked separately from PR `#454`: https://github.com/usesend/useSend/pull/454
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@sefasenturk95, I opened #455 and assigned it to you. It tracks per-recipient SES rate accounting separately from PR #454. The review finding remains open because the code has not changed.
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File: apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts:42-42
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Learning: In `apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts`, the BullMQ limiter caps job starts across workers through Redis, not calls to `sendRawEmail`. Amazon SES permits short sending-rate bursts, but its sending quotas count recipients, including `to`, `cc`, and `bcc`, rather than messages. The current limiter counts one unit per job and does not enforce a per-recipient rate.
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Keep the combined queue limit within the regional quota.
When transactionalQuotaPercentage is 100 or 0, the zero-share queue receives a limiter of 1, while the other queue receives the full regional quota. The independent BullMQ limiters can therefore start quota + 1 jobs per second. The zero-to-one mapping existed for concurrency in the base revision, but this PR adds the per-second limiters that make this combined allowance explicit.
SES may throttle the extra send. The retry logic limits the impact to a delayed retry, so this is a minor issue rather than a major availability issue.
Use a shared regional limiter for both queues, while preserving the one-per-second treatment for zero-share jobs within that shared budget.
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In `@apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts` at line 129, Update the
queue limiter configuration around transactionalQuota so both queues share a
regional per-second budget instead of receiving independent allowances that can
total quota + 1; preserve the zero-share queue’s one-per-second treatment within
that shared budget.
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The +1 is real and pre-existing: the zero-share queue always got one worker slot so its jobs are never stuck, and the limiter mirrors that, so a region at a 0 or 100 share can start quota + 1 per second while both queues have work. BullMQ's limiter is keyed per queue, so the two cannot draw on one budget without a custom bucket. The alternative is to take that slot out of the main queue (13 + 1 for a 14/s account), which penalises the default 100 % transactional setup permanently for a queue that is empty nearly all the time. I left the split as it is: the extra send only happens while the idle queue has work, SES tolerates short bursts, and the retry handles a refusal. I'll switch to the budget-preserving split if the maintainers prefer strictness over the one slot.
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@sefasenturk95, thanks for explaining the tradeoff. The one-job-per-second minimum prevents zero-share jobs from waiting indefinitely, and the separate limiters can exceed the regional quota when both queues have work. I understand why you kept the full rate for the default 100% transactional split. I’ll leave the finding open for the maintainers to decide whether that tradeoff is acceptable.
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File: apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts:148-148
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Learning: In usesend/useSend PR `#454`, `apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts` intentionally maps a zero-share email queue to a one-job-per-second limiter so its jobs can run. At a 0% or 100% split, both queues can together start `quota + 1` jobs per second when both have work. The author prefers to preserve the full rate of the main queue in the default 100% transactional setup rather than reserve one slot for a usually idle queue, unless maintainers require a strict regional budget.
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Learning: In `apps/web/src/server/service/email-queue-service.ts`, the BullMQ limiter caps job starts across workers through Redis, not calls to `sendRawEmail`. Amazon SES permits short sending-rate bursts, but its sending quotas count recipients, including `to`, `cc`, and `bcc`, rather than messages. The current limiter counts one unit per job and does not enforce a per-recipient rate.
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The "Send Rate" of an SES configuration is described in the dashboard as "the number of emails to send per second", but the value only sets the BullMQ worker's concurrency. A send round trip to SES takes a fraction of a second, so
rateworkers in flight send several timesratemails a second. SES answersTooManyRequestsException: Maximum sending rate exceeded.for the rest, andexecuteEmailrecords those mails asFAILEDwithout a retry, so they are lost.Observed on a self-hosted v1.9.8 with an account limit of 14/s and the send rate set to 14: a batch of 300 transactional mails was delivered in about 12 seconds (more than 25/s), and 23 mails across three batches that day ended as
FAILEDwith that error and were never sent.Changes
limiter: { max: rate, duration: 1000 }next to its concurrency, so the queue never starts more sends per second than SES allows. BullMQ keeps the limiter in Redis, shared by every worker of the queue.attempts: 3and exponential backoff (1 s). InexecuteEmail, a throttled send (TooManyRequestsException,ThrottlingException, or any error the AWS SDK marks with$retryable.throttling/ HTTP 429) is rethrown while attempts remain so the queue retries it, and only fails the mail on the last attempt. Every other error still fails the mail at once, as before.DEFAULT_QUEUE_OPTIONSis unchanged; the retry options live in anEMAIL_JOB_OPTIONSnext to the email queue so no other queue's behaviour changes.Tests
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email-queue-service.unit.test.tscovers the limiter on both workers, the worker replacement on a rate change, the retry options onqueueEmailandqueueBulk, and the throttle handling inexecuteEmail(retry while attempts remain, fail on the last attempt, fail other errors at once, record the SES message id on success).pnpm --filter=web test:unit: 22 files, 133 tests passedpnpm --filter=web exec tsc --noEmit: cleanThe service file itself is not touched by Prettier in this PR, since the upstream file is not Prettier-formatted and a full reformat would hide the change; the new blocks follow the repo's Prettier style.
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Honours the SES send rate per second and retries throttled sends so rate-exceeded mails are no longer lost.
Previously the "send rate" only set worker concurrency, letting several times the allowed rate through and marking the throttled rest as
FAILEDwithout retry.limiterof one send rate per second, shared across all workers of a queue via Redis.Written for commit 1e12520. Summary will update on new commits.
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to,ccorbccspends more of the rate than one limiter unit. That is unchanged from before (nothing was counted) and is the case SES advises against anyway (oneSendEmailper recipient); a per-recipient budget would need a custom Redis token bucket. The retry is the net under it.maxwhen a job's reads straddle a second boundary. SES tolerates short bursts and a refused send is retried.quota + 1per second while both have work, as the concurrency already allowed. BullMQ limiters are per queue and cannot share a budget.