🎨 Changed email verification error messages to be configurable via hostSettings

[betschki]

Managed hosting providers other than Ghost(Pro) currently see hardcoded "support@ghost.org" and "account is currently in review" messages that don't apply to their platform. This adds hostSettings configuration keys (emailSendingDisabledMessage, emailVerificationNeededMessage) under the existing emailVerification namespace, with the current Ghost(Pro) messages kept as defaults. Also replaced fragile regex-based error detection in publish-limit modal with proper error code checking.

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📒 Files selected for processing (9)

• ghost/admin/app/components/modals/limits/publish-limit.js
• ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
• ghost/admin/app/utils/publish-options.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/email-service/email-service-wrapper.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/email-service/email-service.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/members/service.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/verification-trigger.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/email-service/email-service.test.js
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/verification-trigger.test.js

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Walkthrough

This pull request implements configurable error messages for email verification workflows across the email and publishing systems. A new error code EMAIL_VERIFICATION_NEEDED is introduced and threaded through multiple services. The changes allow custom messages for email sending disabled scenarios and email verification needed scenarios to be sourced from host settings configuration, replacing hard-coded defaults. These messages propagate from config through EmailServiceWrapper, EmailService, VerificationTrigger, and ultimately to the PublishLimitModal UI component, which now selects header text based on the error code rather than message content inspection. Test coverage is added for the new verification code paths.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: making email verification error messages configurable via hostSettings, which is the core objective of this PR.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the rationale (hardcoded Ghost(Pro) messages don't apply to other managed hosts), the solution (configurable hostSettings keys), and confirms tests were written.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 76.47059% with 4 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 73.18%. Comparing base (0e9af45) to head (0f448f6).
⚠️ Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...ore/server/services/email-service/email-service.js	71.42%	2 Missing ⚠️
ghost/admin/app/utils/publish-options.js	0.00%	1 Missing ⚠️
.../core/core/server/services/verification-trigger.js	80.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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[JohnONolan]

Good idea