Twilio client.messages.stream() returning infinite results? - python-3.x

so I know my Twilio account has sent upwards of 50,000 texts. However, when I run the following:
for item in client.messages.stream():
i+=1
lst.append([item.body.replace('|',''),item.from_,item.date_sent])
if i % 100 == 0:
print(i)
It just keeps running and running. I was originally using client.messages.list, but that hit my 1 minute, then 5 minute, then 10 minute timeout in lambda, so I decided to debug locally, and run the above. I stopped it after it had gotten to 230,000, which is many multiple more messages than we've actually sent.
I don't quite know why it's doing that? The docs don't say anything about this? I can't find in the docs either a way to tell the stream to move on, if what it's doing is just returning the same page over and over.
It doesn't appear to be returning the same page, though - when I print the message body for the hundredth one it changes every so often.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/libraries/reference/twilio-python/7.8.0/docs/source/_rst/twilio.rest.api.v2010.account.message.html#twilio.rest.api.v2010.account.message.MessageList

client.messages.stream(): will return all the messages you have sent as well as received.
You can filter the list by the number the number a message was sent from, if you are only looking to retrieve your outbound messages.
If you are looking to limit the results you are getting, you can set a limit. If you want to speed long requests like this up, you can increase the pageSize to a 1000 (default is 50).

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Ideally on the last processing if it also failed I would like to handle this case (for example, log that this message is given up to process and will be dropped).
Or probably it's possible to find out, how much times received message was tried to be processed before?
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I would like to increase this limit on the number of retries. My data comes in big chunks in a small amount of time and then with a very long period of downtime, which means that getting 429 and waiting for a bit is okay for my purpose. I must guarantee though, that no data is dropped.
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-dead-letter-queues
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-service-bus
https://blog.jeroenmaes.eu/2017/01/process-service-bus-dead-letter-message-with-azure-functions/
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Another function that will process any message in the dead letter queue
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I am getting following response.
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I am looking for the following feature in Gmail.
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Is such a feature already available now or can it be developed using Gmail API?
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This simple solution has some caveats though.
If the user marks an old message as unread, it might cause some unwanted behavior.
Also, if the user reads only one mail, and comes back e.g. three hours later to read another one, the solution above will interpret that as the user read the first mail for three hours, which will not be the case. It will in other words just work when the user reads multiple new mails in succession.

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