Email response
What is the behavior when an email worker throws an exception or error? In one case my email sender did not get a response. Am I rejecting the message by thrown exceptions from a worker?
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According to the documentation, when an Email Worker throws an exception or error, it does not reject the message. Instead, the message is dropped silently. This is because the Worker is acting as the "server" in the HTTP request-response lifecycle, and invalid responses from the Worker can fail silently.
To reject a message, you need to explicitly call the
Here is an example of how to reject a message:
In your case, if the email sender did not get a response, it's possible that the Worker threw an exception or error, causing the message to be dropped silently. To handle this, you can add error handling to your Worker code and call
Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/email-workers/runtime-api/
To reject a message, you need to explicitly call the
setReject method on the ForwardableEmailMessage object, passing a reason string as an argument. This will return a permanent SMTP error back to the connecting client, including the given reason.Here is an example of how to reject a message:
In your case, if the email sender did not get a response, it's possible that the Worker threw an exception or error, causing the message to be dropped silently. To handle this, you can add error handling to your Worker code and call
setReject to reject the message with a meaningful error message.Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/email-workers/runtime-api/
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AIf that's the case, why is CloudFlare not responding to the sender server
