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Accepted is not delivered: the day 337 messages reached nobody

For one whole day our software reported success on every send while not one message arrived. Here is what we got wrong and what we changed.

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What we saw

Three hundred and thirty-seven messages to a hundred and forty people, every one of them logged as sent. No errors, no alerts, no failed rows. The first sign anything was wrong was a human asking why nobody had replied.

What was actually happening

The messaging API returns ACCEPTED when it has taken your request. That is not DELIVERED, and it is not even a promise of an attempt. Our code treated the first as the second, which meant a billing problem upstream was invisible to us for a day.

What we changed

Nothing in this platform reports a message as delivered on the strength of an accepted response any more. Delivery is read back from the network, and where we cannot read it back we say so rather than guessing.

It is why the omnichannel inbox distinguishes the two states on screen, which looks like pedantry until the day it is not.

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