Email, SMS, push, and chat APIs differ, but all can accept a request without delivering a message. The communication API directory is a starting point; validate the complete lifecycle.
Delivery trial
- Send consented test messages to representative destinations and verify sender identity rules.
- Distinguish accepted, queued, delivered, bounced, failed, and unknown states.
- Test webhook signatures, duplicate events, out-of-order notifications, and retries.
- Define idempotency so a timeout does not generate two messages.
- Check unsubscribe or opt-out handling, rate limits, templates, localization, and data retention.
Never treat an HTTP success code as proof a recipient saw the message. Provide a support path for failures and honor consent rules in every channel.
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