Kubernetes Release Emails as a CI/CD Gate

<p>Most Playwright suites stop right before the hard part of a signup flow: the "confirm your email" link, the emailed 6-digit code, the password-reset mail. The usual reasons are

<p>Short answer: put each user reminder on a queue, make the consumer idempotent, retry transient delivery failures with backoff, and move exhausted work to a dead-letter queue

<p>Email verification looks easy until you try to prove it works repeatably in CI. The happy path is obvious: create user, send email, click link, mark account verified. The

<p>A patch touches zero test files. No assertion changes, no new skips, no fixture edits. The suite goes green on the first run.</p> <p>Then someone opens the job duration graph

<p>Your uptime monitor says the login API returned 200. Your SMS provider's dashboard says "sent". And yet users can't log in, because the verification code never showed up.</p>

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