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Accept service desk emails from a separate address

Jan Provaznik requested to merge sdesk-name-handler into master

What does this MR do?

If an email is sent to a service desk specific address, then it's processed by ServiceDeskEmailReceiver which extracts a service desk key from the email address (this key is different from the key format we use for generic incoming emails) and passes the incoming email to service desk handler. Service desk handler is now updated to accept also service_desk_key - if this key is passed then the project is search by this key.

This is backward compatible so users can still use the existing generic incoming email address too.

To test this add service_desk_email section similar to !23524 (merged) into gitlab.yml and enable service_desk_email feature flag.

Related to #2201 (closed)

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Edited by Justin Farris

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