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Problem

Case update emails with a large recipient list failed with 554 Transaction failed: Recipient count exceeds 50. The SMTP relay (Amazon SES) allows at most 50 recipients per message across To, Cc and Bcc, and counts the addresses in the headers as well as the envelope. The service sent everything as one message, so the whole send failed.

Change

• SendEmail now splits recipients (To, then Cc, then Bcc, de-duplicated) into separate messages of at most 50, each with its own To/Cc headers, all sent over one SMTP connection.
• Each recipient gets exactly one copy, but only sees the other recipients of their own message. Bcc addresses never appear in headers.
• A failed batch no longer stops the rest; all failures are returned together (recipient batch N: ...).
• Requests with no recipients still fail instead of succeeding silently.
• Up to 50 recipients behaves as before: one message.
• README documents the behaviour.

Testing

• go vet and go test -race ./... pass, including the existing handler and MIME tests.
• New tests use an in-process fake SMTP server: batch sizes (120 recipients gives 50/50/20), single delivery per recipient, de-duplication, no recipients, per-batch headers, Bcc not in headers, and relay rejection above 50.
• Manual: with a staging sender, a 60-recipient request (all plus-addresses of one mailbox) returned 200 and was sent as two messages; before the change the same shape failed with the 554.

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• New Features
  • Emails with more than 50 unique recipients are sent in batches of up to 50. Recipients are deduplicated across To, CC, and BCC, with the first-listed role preserved.
  • Each recipient receives one copy and sees only recipients included in their message. If a batch fails, sending continues for the remaining batches; the request returns an error if any batch fails.
• Documentation
  • Updated the email endpoint documentation to describe recipient batching and partial failures.

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Build one MIME message at a time.

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Review comments at @operations/email-service/internal/smtp/client.go:
- Around line 236-242: Update the flow that builds MIME messages for `batches`
so each `buildMIMEMessage` result is sent and released before building the next
batch, rather than retaining all results in `raws`. Preserve the existing
MIME-build error handling and batch order.

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Walkthrough

The SMTP client now deduplicates recipients and sends messages in batches of up to 50. It continues sending after a batch failure and returns joined errors. Tests and documentation describe batching and delivery behavior.

Changes: SMTP recipient batching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Construct recipient batches operations/email-service/internal/smtp/consts.go, operations/email-service/internal/smtp/client.go, operations/email-service/internal/smtp/batch_test.go	The client extracts bare addresses, deduplicates recipients across To, CC, and BCC in that order, and creates message copies with no more than 50 recipients. Tests cover batch sizes, deduplication, empty recipients, and per-batch headers.
Send and verify each batch operations/email-service/internal/smtp/client.go, operations/email-service/internal/smtp/consts.go, operations/email-service/internal/smtp/batch_test.go, operations/email-service/README.md	SendEmail sends each batch over SMTP. After a failed transaction, it resets the session and continues with remaining batches, then returns joined errors. Tests cover successful and rejected transactions. The README describes recipient visibility and failure handling.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SendEmail
  participant SMTPServer
  SendEmail->>SMTPServer: Send each recipient batch
  SMTPServer-->>SendEmail: Return transaction result
  SendEmail->>SMTPServer: Reset session after a failed batch

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review bed95

Sending to many recipients with a large attachment can hold many copies of that attachment in memory at once. This can strain the email service under load. The batching behavior itself looks sound. Building each batch's message at send time before merging would remove the memory growth.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, behavior, and testing, but it does not follow the required template. It omits or does not clearly provide sections for user stories, release note,…	Update the description to include all required template sections. Mark non-applicable sections as N/A with a brief explanation, and provide the required testing, security, documentation, and environment details.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 41.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: sending email-service messages with more than 50 recipients in batches.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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- Around line 236-242: Update the flow that builds MIME messages for `batches`
so each `buildMIMEMessage` result is sent and released before building the next
batch, rather than retaining all results in `raws`. Preserve the existing
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