Do AirMail events to the hook URL cause a contact email to be put on hold and/or disable bulk emails?

[norm-oyg]

Sorry this is not a bug but a request for clarification.

I connected my CiviCRM Outbound email to Amazon SES with a Topic to SNS that has a subscriber set to the AirMail hook. Emails are going out and SNS is receiving bounce events. I confirmed that a (forced) bounced email caused an event to arrive in SES and the SNS topic and get emailed to my email via another subscriber. How can I confirm that Airmail received the hook call and processed it successfully?

I noticed in your source code that when Airmail receives a bounce event, it makes an API3 call in EventAction.php:
$bounceEvent = civicrm_api3('Mailing', 'event_bounce', $params);

But I cannot tell what's in the $params or what the event_bounce function actually does. I'm assuming $params contains the SES Bounce message body which contains a parseable structure that AirMail or CiviMail can interpret. I was hoping it find the recipient email, looks it up in Civi Contacts and either sets the email to On Hold and/or unchecks send Bulk Emails. Possibly posts an activity as well.

I saw something about Elastic, which I'm guessing it uses to store a log of the incoming messages but I don't think that's required since I didn't see instructions in AirMail SES Readme or Baackend/Ses.php.

If the extension is just logging events for manual review, can you recommend an extension that actually flips the offending email to On Hold?

Thanks for your help!!
Norm