Merge pull request #3081 from alphagov/ses-error-logs

SES error logs

app/clients/email/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ class EmailClientException(ClientException):
     pass
 
 
+class EmailClientNonRetryableException(ClientException):
+    '''
+    Represents an error returned from the email client API with a 4xx response code
+    that should not be retried and should instead be marked as technical failure.
+    An example of this would be an email address that makes it through our
+    validation rules but is rejected by SES. There is no point in retrying this type as
+    it will always fail however many calls to SES. Whereas a throttling error would not
+    use this exception as it may succeed if we retry
+    '''
+    pass
+
+
 class EmailClient(Client):
     '''
     Base Email client for sending emails.

app/clients/email/aws_ses.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from time import monotonic
 from notifications_utils.recipients import InvalidEmailError
 
 from app.clients import STATISTICS_DELIVERED, STATISTICS_FAILURE
-from app.clients.email import (EmailClientException, EmailClient)
+from app.clients.email import EmailClient, EmailClientException, EmailClientNonRetryableException
 
 ses_response_map = {
     'Permanent': {
@@ -122,10 +122,7 @@ class AwsSesClient(EmailClient):
 
             # http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/api-error-codes.html
             if e.response['Error']['Code'] == 'InvalidParameterValue':
-                raise InvalidEmailError('email: "{}" message: "{}"'.format(
-                    to_addresses[0],
-                    e.response['Error']['Message']
-                ))
+                raise EmailClientNonRetryableException(e.response['Error']['Message'])
             elif (
                 e.response['Error']['Code'] == 'Throttling'
                 and e.response['Error']['Message'] == 'Maximum sending rate exceeded.'