Merge pull request 'docs(troubleshooting): suppression and bounces (engagement Phase 9)' (#25) from docs/engagement-deliverability into edge

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- **A missed announcement does not come back.** Nothing retries; the post itself is still - **A missed announcement does not come back.** Nothing retries; the post itself is still
on the site. on the site.
## One person stopped receiving email
Everyone else is getting mail, so the transport is fine. Check
**Engagement → Suppressions**, then **Engagement → Send Log**.
- **They are on the suppression list.** The site stops mailing an address once the
receiving server says the mailbox does not exist. Addresses are stored one way and
shown masked (`d***@example.com`), so search by their domain to find the row. If they
have since fixed their mailbox, press **Lift a suppression** and type the full
address — the screen genuinely does not have it, which is why you are asked.
- **Suppression only affects engagement rules.** Password resets, invites and address
verification still go out to a suppressed address, because those are things the person
asked for themselves. So "they can reset their password but get no notifications" is
the expected shape of this problem, not a contradiction.
- **The Send Log says *Not sent*.** That is a suppression: nothing was sent to the mail
server at all. *Bounced* means it was sent and the mailbox does not exist. *Failed*
means the relay refused it for some other reason — that one is about your
configuration, not about them.
- **The Send Log has no row for them at all.** They were excluded before anything was
queued. Either they have not opted in on **Notifications** for that stream, or
*Require a verified email address* is on in **Settings** and they have not confirmed
theirs. The rule editor's audience preview shows how many people each of those removes.
## Everyone stopped receiving email at once
Do **not** start clearing the suppression list — it is almost certainly not the cause.
A whole-deployment stop is a transport problem: an expired password, a relay that has
started refusing you, or *Enable email sending* switched off. The Send Log will show
*Failed* rather than *Bounced* or *Not sent*, and **Settings → Email delivery** shows the
last error. A wrong password never suppresses anybody; only the receiving server saying a
specific mailbox does not exist does that.
## Uploads and modules fail with permission errors ## Uploads and modules fail with permission errors
Docker created a bind-mount source that the container user cannot write — usually because Docker created a bind-mount source that the container user cannot write — usually because