config, notify/email: support loading smtp auth username from file

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  • Fixes Load smtp_auth_username from file #4395
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Description

This PR implements support for loading the SMTP authentication username from a file, resolving #4395. It mirrors the existing smtp_auth_password_file and auth_password_file mechanisms:

• Adds smtp_auth_username_file in GlobalConfig
• Adds auth_username_file in receiver EmailConfig
• Validates mutual exclusivity between username and username file in both global config and receiver config
• Inherits global smtp_auth_username or smtp_auth_username_file if the receiver has not specified either
• Loads and trims the username file in notify/email
• Updates docs/configuration.md
• Adds unit tests covering validation, inheritance, and file reading

Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?

[ENHANCEMENT] Email Integration: Support loading SMTP auth username from a file via `smtp_auth_username_file` and `auth_username_file`. #4395

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The configuration adds global and receiver-level SMTP username file options. Validation prevents simultaneous username sources. Email authentication reads and trims the configured username file, with tests covering inheritance, overrides, fallback, and read errors.

Changes

SMTP authentication username file support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration contract and inheritance config/config.go, config/notifiers.go, config/config_test.go, docs/configuration.md	Adds global and email receiver username-file fields. Validates mutually exclusive username sources. Updates global inheritance and documents the options.
Email username resolution notify/email/email.go, notify/email/email_test.go	Adds file-based username resolution with whitespace trimming and read-error handling. SMTP authentication uses the resolved username.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EmailAuth as Email.auth
  participant UsernameResolver as getUsername
  participant FileSystem
  participant SMTPServer
  EmailAuth->>UsernameResolver: resolve configured username
  UsernameResolver->>FileSystem: read AuthUsernameFile
  FileSystem-->>UsernameResolver: username or read error
  UsernameResolver-->>EmailAuth: trimmed username or error
  EmailAuth->>SMTPServer: authenticate with resolved username

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9d3c5

Users can configure both documented global username sources and have the configuration rejected without documentation explaining the conflict. Add the constraint before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the affected areas and the main change: loading SMTP authentication usernames from a file.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the required template, identifies the linked issue, documents the feature, confirms tests and documentation updates, records compatibility details, and includes release notes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #4395 requires file-based auth_username and smtp_auth_username support. The PR adds AuthUsernameFile and SMTPAuthUsernameFile, validates mutual exclusivity, inherits the global file sett…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #4395. The added configuration fields, validation, inheritance, documentation, and tests directly support file-based SMTP username credentials. No unrelated behavior or A…

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Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 85-86: Update the SMTP authentication configuration documentation
near smtp_auth_username_file to state that smtp_auth_username and
smtp_auth_username_file are mutually exclusive and must not be configured
together.

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• config/config.go
• config/config_test.go
• config/notifiers.go
• docs/configuration.md
• notify/email/email.go
• notify/email/email_test.go

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the global mutual-exclusivity rule.

The global reference lists smtp_auth_username and smtp_auth_username_file separately, but config/config.go rejects configurations that set both. Add a note that these options are mutually exclusive.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@docs/configuration.md` around lines 85 - 86, Update the SMTP authentication
configuration documentation near smtp_auth_username_file to state that
smtp_auth_username and smtp_auth_username_file are mutually exclusive and must
not be configured together.

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