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One spam report per thousand sends puts an email account under review. At 0.5% spam reports, the platform pauses your sending. Bounces work the same way. Once you hit these limits, you cannot just wait for a timer. You must contact support with proof of a fix.
Do not use platform limits as your target. Use them as your last line of defense. You must set stricter limits yourself.
Autonomous agents act differently than traditional code. A model might enter a loop. A reply triggers a webhook, which triggers another reply. A small bug becomes a thousand emails in minutes. Models do not know when they are sending too much. You must build that awareness into your infrastructure.
Use policies to protect your workspace. A policy lets you set: • Daily send quotas • Storage caps • Retention windows • Spam settings
A self-imposed quota is not throttling. It is an assertion. If a support agent only needs 150 emails a day, a limit of 151 tells you something is wrong. This acts like a circuit breaker. It makes errors visible before they become expensive.
You can also use outbound rules to control direction. You can block specific domains or prevent agents from starting new threads. These rules evaluate before the message leaves. If the system has an error while checking a rule, it fails closed. This means it blocks the message rather than risking an unsafe send.
To stay safe, follow these steps: • Subscribe to message delivery, bounce, complaint, and rejection webhooks. • Monitor these rates in your own telemetry. • Pause your outbound logic manually if rates climb.
Saying "we paused ourselves" is a better incident report than "the platform paused us."
If you worry about volume spikes, do not make the quota a dead end. Make it an escalation path. If an agent hits a limit, alert a human or queue the messages for approval. A delayed email is a minor issue. A destroyed sender reputation takes weeks to fix.
Next step: Create a policy with a daily quota at 2x your peak volume. Attach it to your workspace. Trigger the quota in a staging environment. If your alerts do not fire, you found a gap.
Source: https://dev.to/qasim157/rate-limit-your-own-agent-before-someone-else-does-33cb
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