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Use AWS SNS to handle SES Feedback Notifications #461

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@garyhtou

Whenever we send digests on Tuesdays, HCB gets spammed with hundreds of "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" emails.

When we receive these notifications, it generally means the email bounced (e.g. email address no longer valid), or there was a complaint (marked as spam). Because of this, we want to unsubscribe the user. Currently, these notifications get sent to hackathons@hackclub.com.

By sending the SES Feedback notification to a AWS SNS Topic, we can then programmatically unsubscribe these users.

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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/notification-contents.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/monitor-sending-activity-using-notifications-sns.html

follow up with @MelSmith104 and @alexdevz once completed

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