Email Notification System: Action Items & Recovery Plan

[cesarvarela]

Fixes & Prevention

• [x] Confirm original bugfix for email addressing is in production (César)
• [x] Add email pipeline validation function:
  • [x] Implement ASSERT-like function for single recipient validation
  • [x] Add unit tests for validation function
• [x] Improve error reporting for process notification API
• [x] Disable notifications during forced deploys

Review & Security

• [ ] Verify Mailersend token pause functionality
• [x] Verify user data isolation from staging backups

Cleanup & Recovery

• [x] Run migration to remove pending notifications
• [x] Re-enable notification system

[cesarvarela]

Only task left is to check the pause functionality @kepae

[kepae]

@cesarvarela if you have a local dev setup, would you please consider pausing the tokens and observing if that is sufficient? Otherwise I will create a dev setup, as I haven't done that yet.

I really can't imagine "pausing" doesn't work, but we're being thorough.