Docs: State the incoming email prerequisite for convert_to_ticket

What does this MR do?

States the incoming email prerequisite for the /convert_to_ticket quick action and the Service Desk settings section, on the three pages where a reader meets them.

On an instance where incoming email is not set up with wildcard support (email sub-addressing or a catch-all mailbox), ServiceDesk.supported? is false:

None of the three pages that document the command or the settings section state this. A reader on a self-managed instance without incoming email can reasonably conclude from the current docs that /convert_to_ticket creates tickets without any email configuration, then finds the command and the settings section absent, with no explanation on any of the pages. A customer administrator reached that conclusion, which is how the omission surfaced.

Changes:

  • doc/user/project/quick_actions.md: add the availability condition to the convert_to_ticket reference entry, which is where users first meet the command.
  • doc/user/project/service_desk/using_service_desk.md: add prerequisites to the "Create a Service Desk ticket in GitLab UI" and "Convert a regular issue to a Service Desk ticket" sections.
  • doc/user/project/service_desk/configure.md: in the existing prerequisite that already covers incoming email setup, name the observable symptom: the settings section is not displayed without it.

Related to #603182 (quick action conditions are invisible to users; this MR is a docs-side fix for one command's condition).

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