feat(mail): add replyTo support to sendMail and sendBatchMail

[yash-pouranik]

added reply to field in api

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for specifying one or more reply-to email addresses when sending messages.
  • Reply-to addresses are forwarded for both individual and batch emails.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved batch email validation for recipients, reply-to addresses, message content, and batch size.
  • Added clearer validation messages for invalid email requests.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The mail API now accepts optional replyTo values for single and batch messages. Shared schema validation checks reply-to email formats. Batch requests enforce recipient, content, and size rules before forwarding reply_to values to Resend.

Changes

Mail delivery updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reply-to validation schema packages/common/src/utils/input.validation.js	sendMailSchema accepts an optional email string or array of email strings for replyTo.
Mail controller delivery flow apps/public-api/src/controllers/mail.controller.js	Single and batch messages forward replyTo as reply_to. Batch validation checks recipient addresses, content, nonempty input, and a maximum of 100 items.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fc5fc

The new reply-to option is currently dropped for both single and batch email sends, so users may not receive replies at the intended address; validation also permits empty reply-to lists and whitespace-only content. These correctness issues should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MailRequest
  participant sendMailSchema
  participant mailController
  participant Resend
  MailRequest->>sendMailSchema: validate replyTo
  sendMailSchema-->>mailController: return validated input
  MailRequest->>mailController: submit batch request
  mailController->>mailController: validate recipients, content, and batch size
  mailController->>Resend: send payload with reply_to

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Suggested reviewers: nitin-kumar-yadav1307, ayush4958

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/public-api/src/controllers/mail.controller.js`:
- Line 491: Update the mail payload validation near the subject and body fields:
require subject.trim() to have nonzero length, and require either html or text
to contain non-whitespace content rather than relying on truthiness. Preserve
acceptance of valid non-blank values while rejecting whitespace-only inputs.
- Line 299: Update the queued payload construction in the mail controller so the
reply-to value is stored as replyTo, matching the field expected by
resend.emails.send(); alternatively, update the worker’s payload handling to
convert reply_to to replyTo before sending. Preserve reply-to behavior for
single-message emails and avoid changing unrelated payload fields.

Apply the same fix in `@apps/public-api/src/controllers/mail.controller.js` at
line 521: The batch payload has the same field-name mismatch.

In `@packages/common/src/utils/input.validation.js`:
- Line 659: Reject empty replyTo arrays in both schemas by adding a minimum-one
constraint to the array branches in
packages/common/src/utils/input.validation.js:659-659 and
apps/public-api/src/controllers/mail.controller.js:490-490, or reuse the shared
schema so both locations enforce identical validation while continuing to
validate each address as an email.

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