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email: add verification cool down to prevent abuse

Warren Gifford requested to merge jc/email-verification-cool-down into master

Created by: unknwon

This PR adds a so-called "email verification cool down" mechanism to prevent abuse someone else's email in high frequency, this mechanism could be used for single email.

Notes:

  1. Add a new site configuration option { "email.verification": { "coolDown": "30s" } } (naming subject to change if there is a better one!)
  2. Prevent user from signing up with a previously used email until the email address is cooled down
  3. Prevent user from adding another email to the account until the user as a whole is cooled down
  4. The mechanism will not be triggered if the Sourcegraph instance does not require email verification

Manually tested and added unit tests.

Fixes sourcegraph/security-issues#55.

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