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Resolve "Rate limit email blast from Admin area"

Manoj M J requested to merge 31509-rate-limit-email-blast-from-admin-area into master

What does this MR do?

For #31509 (closed)

This change adds a rate limit of 1 email blast per every 10 minutes to the "Send emails from admin area" feature.

Before sending any email, ie, when there are no rate limits in place (this is the existing behaviour):

Screenshot_2020-05-11_at_12.43.48_PM

After sending 1 email:

Screenshot_2020-05-11_at_12.34.21_PM

After the wait period is over, the admin will be able to trigger emails again.

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

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Edited by Mike Jang

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