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If a container restarted while an email's batches were still being built, the next run treated the partial batch set as complete: sendEmail skipped createBatches whenever any batches already existed, silently abandoning the un-built tail of recipients. The email was then marked submitted with an email_count reflecting the pre-send estimate, so recipients below the interruption point were never batched or sent.

createBatches is now idempotent. It reads the coverage a prior run already built (per segment: recipient count and the lowest built member id) and resumes each segment below that watermark, so re-running builds only the un-built tail and never duplicates. sendEmail always reconciles instead of skipping, and totalCount is seeded from existing coverage so the domain-warmup split and the email_count correction stay accurate. Batch creation also now aborts at a batch boundary on shutdown, mirroring the send loop, leaving a consistent partial that resumes on the next boot.

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No change required. module.exports.SHUTDOWN_CODE = SHUTDOWN_CODE exposes BatchSendingService.SHUTDOWN_CODE, so the test predicate receives the expected value.

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The email service now reconciles existing batches through createBatches. It tracks batch creation and sending during shutdown. It resumes member queries below segment watermarks and preserves existing batches. Shutdown during creation raises SHUTDOWN_CODE after committed batch boundaries. Tests cover reconciliation, resumption, fresh sends, interruption, draining, and database mock methods.

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If a container restarted while an email's batches were still being built,
the next run treated the partial batch set as complete: sendEmail skipped
createBatches whenever any batches already existed, silently abandoning the
un-built tail of recipients. The email was then marked submitted with an
email_count reflecting the pre-send estimate, so recipients below the
interruption point were never batched or sent.

createBatches is now idempotent. It reads the coverage a prior run already
built (per segment: recipient count and the lowest built member id) and
resumes each segment below that watermark, so re-running builds only the
un-built tail and never duplicates. sendEmail always reconciles instead of
skipping, and totalCount is seeded from existing coverage so the domain-warmup
split and the email_count correction stay accurate. Batch creation also now
aborts at a batch boundary on shutdown, mirroring the send loop, leaving a
consistent partial that resumes on the next boot.
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