Recoil

Recoil makes sure your Amazon SES reputation is preserved by blacklisting emails with a bad reputation. Recoil does this with two simple tools:

1. An HTTP endpoint to receive bounce notifications and save them to the database.
2. An ActionMailer interceptor which is able to filter emails with high bounce rates.

Getting started

Recoil works with Rails 4.0 onward. You can add it to you Gemfile with:

gem 'recoil'

Run the bundle command to install it. After you've installed Recoil you need to copy the migrations and migrate the database:

rake recoil:install:migrations
rake db:migrate

Add the endpoint to your routes.rb:

mount Recoil::Engine => '/ses'

Add an initializer: config/initializers/recoil.rb to initialize the interceptor:

ActionMailer::Base.register_interceptor(Recoil::Interceptor)

You're now ready to subscribe to SNS-notifications:

• Go to the SES dashboard and navigate to Topics > Create new topic.
• Enter a name and save.
• Create a new http/https subscription for this topic with the Recoil URL as endpoint. Make sure Recoil is mounted to this URL, as SNS will send a verification request as soon as you add the subscription.
• After the subscription is added and verified, you're able to let SES send notifications to the SNS topic. This is configurable in the SES dashboard.

Configuration

There is just a single configuration option for recoil: blacklist_threshold. This is a lambda with an ActiveRecord scope as argument. The default configuration is to blacklist all email with 10+ bounces in the last two weeks. This is a very loose policy, but it's easy to change:

# config/initializers/recoil.rb
  Recoil.blacklist_threshold = ->(scope) { scope.where('created_at > ?', 1.week.ago).count > 10 }

##RDocs

You can view the Recoil documentation in RDoc format here:

http://rubydoc.info/github/brightin/recoil

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/brightin/recoil/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request