From 6b62184c07bb101b5557e2a70ecf417d0493f5c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanner Prestegard <tanner.prestegard@ligo.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:10:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent email sending failure from breaking process
---
gracedb/alerts/email.py | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gracedb/alerts/email.py b/gracedb/alerts/email.py
index 0ffa1f3b7..c79aa8385 100644
--- a/gracedb/alerts/email.py
+++ b/gracedb/alerts/email.py
@@ -152,4 +152,10 @@ def issue_email_alerts(event_or_superevent, alert_type, recipients,
# Send email messages
backend = get_connection()
- backend.send_messages(messages)
+ try:
+ backend.send_messages(messages)
+ except Exception as e:
+ # If there is a problem sending emails just log it and continue since
+ # email alerts aren't mission critical. But we log the information
+ # since we want to understand what is happening.
+ logger.error('Error sending email alerts: {e}'.format(e=e))
--
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