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Ask the carrier what actually happened
A provider 2xx means it accepted the message, not that anyone received
it. Twilio answers 201 Created and the carrier may refuse seconds later,
and nothing watching HTTP status codes will ever know.

That is not hypothetical: the ledger shows 48 consecutive messages to
one number, every one undelivered, going back to January - including a
daily send for seven weeks. Each was recorded upstream as a success, and
each was billed.

Two decisions worth keeping. We poll rather than take a StatusCallback,
because this relay binds to loopback on purpose and no carrier can reach
it - polling costs one API call per run and keeps that property. And we
reconcile against the provider's ledger rather than our own record,
because our own record is exactly what was wrong, and it only knows
about messages we sent; Twilio's knows about the ones another service
sent too, which is how those 48 would have been caught.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-18 20:43:11 -04:00

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"""Asking the carrier what actually happened.
A provider's 2xx means it accepted the message. It does not mean anyone
received it. Twilio answers `201 Created` and then, seconds later, the carrier
may refuse the message outright — and nothing in an estate that only watches
HTTP status codes will ever notice.
That is not hypothetical here. On 2026-08-19 the ledger showed **48 consecutive
messages to one number, every one undelivered, going back to January**,
including a daily send for seven weeks. Each was recorded upstream as a
success, and each was billed.
Two decisions worth keeping:
**We poll; we are not called back.** The obvious design is Twilio's
`StatusCallback` webhook, but this relay binds to loopback on purpose — a
publicly reachable relay is a spam relay — so no carrier can reach it. Polling
costs one API call per run and keeps that property.
**We reconcile against the provider's ledger, not our own record.** Our record
is exactly the thing that was wrong, and it only knows about messages we sent.
Twilio's ledger knows about every message on the account, including the ones a
different service sent — which is how those 48 would have been caught even
though nothing here sent them.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import base64
import json
import urllib.parse
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from typing import Any, Callable
from app.providers import Post, Response, post as default_post
LIST_URL = "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{sid}/Messages.json"
# Twilio's terminal states. `sent` means it left Twilio and the carrier has not
# reported back — for a US handset that is usually followed by `delivered` or
# `undelivered`, so it is treated as "still in flight" rather than as success.
DELIVERED = frozenset({"delivered", "received"})
FAILED = frozenset({"undelivered", "failed"})
IN_FLIGHT = frozenset({"queued", "accepted", "sending", "sent", "scheduled"})
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Message:
sid: str
to: str
status: str
error_code: str | None
sent_at: str | None
@property
def failed(self) -> bool:
return self.status in FAILED
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Report:
delivered: int
failed: list[Message]
in_flight: int
unknown: list[str]
@property
def ok(self) -> bool:
return not self.failed
def summary(self) -> str:
if not (self.delivered or self.failed or self.in_flight):
return "no messages in the window"
parts = [f"{self.delivered} delivered", f"{len(self.failed)} failed", f"{self.in_flight} in flight"]
return ", ".join(parts)
def _mask(number: str) -> str:
"""Enough to recognise a number, not enough to publish one."""
return f"***{number[-4:]}" if number and len(number) > 4 else "***"
def fetch(
*,
account_sid: str,
auth_token: str,
since: datetime,
timeout: float = 15.0,
page_size: int = 200,
post: Post | None = None,
get: Callable[..., Response] | None = None,
) -> list[Message]:
"""Every message Twilio has recorded since `since`, whoever sent it."""
fetcher = get or _get
query = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Twilio filters on the date a message was sent, at day granularity for
# the inclusive form; asking from the start of the day is deliberate,
# since a run just after midnight must still see last night's failures.
"DateSent>": since.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
"PageSize": str(page_size),
})
reply = fetcher(
LIST_URL.format(sid=urllib.parse.quote(account_sid, safe="")) + "?" + query,
headers={"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(
f"{account_sid}:{auth_token}".encode()).decode()},
timeout=timeout,
)
if reply.status >= 400:
raise RuntimeError(f"twilio refused the ledger query with {reply.status}")
payload: dict[str, Any] = json.loads(reply.body or "{}")
out: list[Message] = []
for row in payload.get("messages") or []:
sent = row.get("date_sent") or row.get("date_created")
out.append(Message(
sid=str(row.get("sid") or ""),
to=str(row.get("to") or ""),
status=str(row.get("status") or "").lower(),
error_code=str(row["error_code"]) if row.get("error_code") else None,
sent_at=str(sent) if sent else None,
))
return out
def reconcile(messages: list[Message]) -> Report:
delivered = sum(1 for m in messages if m.status in DELIVERED)
failed = [m for m in messages if m.failed]
in_flight = sum(1 for m in messages if m.status in IN_FLIGHT)
unknown = sorted({m.status for m in messages
if m.status and m.status not in DELIVERED | FAILED | IN_FLIGHT})
return Report(delivered=delivered, failed=failed, in_flight=in_flight, unknown=unknown)
def describe(report: Report) -> str:
"""A message an operator can act on, with no numbers in full."""
lines = [f"SMS reconciliation: {report.summary()}."]
if report.failed:
lines.append("")
lines.append("These were accepted by Twilio and then not delivered:")
by_reason: dict[str, list[Message]] = {}
for m in report.failed:
by_reason.setdefault(m.error_code or "no error code", []).append(m)
for reason, group in sorted(by_reason.items(), key=lambda kv: -len(kv[1])):
recipients = ", ".join(sorted({_mask(m.to) for m in group})[:6])
lines.append(f" {len(group):>3}x error {reason} -> {recipients}")
lines.append("")
lines.append("Error 30032 means the sending number is an unverified toll-free "
"number; the carrier blocks it and no retry will help.")
if report.unknown:
lines.append(f"Statuses this checker does not classify: {', '.join(report.unknown)}")
return "\n".join(lines)
def _get(url: str, *, headers: dict[str, str], timeout: float) -> Response:
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
request = urllib.request.Request(url, method="GET", headers={
**headers, "User-Agent": "channel-exit-reconcile/1.0"})
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout) as reply:
return Response(status=reply.status, body=reply.read().decode(errors="replace"),
headers=dict(reply.headers))
except urllib.error.HTTPError as error:
return Response(status=error.code, body=error.read().decode(errors="replace"),
headers=dict(error.headers or {}))
def window_start(hours: int) -> datetime:
return datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(hours=hours)