Hello, 

I have a simple Play application that does some statistical analysis of 
data and alerts customers with alerts when something is wrong. Sometimes it 
happens, that sending alert fails (SMTP server down, network errors) etc.

I was thinking of a way to make the email sending process more resilient by 
using some features of Akka Persistence (I'm quite new here), so the 
workflow I was considering:

1. Persistent actor receives request to send email alerts.
2. Alerts are persistence with akka persistence plugin.
3. Alerts are sent by the actor.

However, the problem I see in this is that if Actor crashes and replays all 
messages I would send duplicates (or worse) of emails, so I would have to 
clear the messages myself, which kind of misses the point of using actor at 
all. 

Is Persistent Actor the right approach to solve these kind of problems? 
Should I solve this problem the `default` way by just using some external 
storage for all non-sent mails (e.g. Kafka queue)?


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