Creating a link now requires a valid email address and mails the link to it, which is the whole point: getting a link to a contributor was previously a copy-and-paste into whatever the admin happened to use.
The send is awaited and its outcome reported, unlike every other sender in this codebase, which fires and forgets because nobody is waiting on the answer. Here somebody is. The admin is looking at the screen, and whether they now have to send the link by hand is exactly the thing they need to know — and QA blocks delivery to any address outside MAIL_ALLOWLIST by design, so a link that was never emailed would otherwise look precisely like one that was.
A send that could not happen does not roll the link back. The token is displayed exactly once, so a rollback would leave the admin retrying and holding a different link, discarding work that had succeeded. They end up with a usable link and an honest statement about delivery instead.
One inaccuracy left deliberately: an SMTP rejection is reported as skipped-unconfigured rather than a fourth outcome of its own. The distinction is real but nothing consumes it, and the admin's next action is identical either way.
Also updates the other integration tests that created a link with only a label, since an address is now required, and adds the uploadLink template key that GET /api/admin/email-templates was missing from its list — an omission left by the template's addition in the prior commit on this branch.
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The public intake POST now reads a `removeBackground` multipart field and stores it on the new `item_drafts.remove_background` column. The checkbox on the submission page is ticked by default, so a client that sends nothing gets `true` — only the exact string `'false'` opts out, so a stray or unexpected value is treated as consent rather than a silent refusal.
The GET now also reports `backgroundRemoval: isRembgConfigured()` alongside the label, so the submission page knows up front whether the feature exists in this environment at all. Neither handler calls the sidecar or the AI — this task only records intent for the drafting worker to act on later, and the existing ordering of `requireUsableLink` and `requireCapacity` ahead of `uploadImages` is unchanged.
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The public way in. Photos of one item plus a free-text note, from someone with no account, landing as an `items` row at status 'pending' — already invisible to every public and storefront query since #90, so nothing is live by accident.
Every refusal is a 404. Unknown, revoked and exhausted links are indistinguishable from outside, because whether a link exists is not something a stranger needs to be able to learn — the same reasoning uploads.ts applies to files.
The link is resolved *before* multer runs, and that ordering is the point rather than an implementation detail. discardUnlessAccepted would delete the files afterwards, but "written then deleted" is materially worse than "never written" on an endpoint the whole internet can reach: it is disk churn an unauthenticated caller controls, and it leans on an unlink that a crash between write and delete would skip. A test asserts the volume is untouched for a bad token, so a future reordering fails loudly instead of quietly handing that control away.
The link counter is incremented inside the transaction and guarded on the same conditions as the lookup, so two submissions racing for the last slot of a capped link cannot both succeed. The response carries no item id: the sender has no business knowing about the catalogue and nothing they could do with it.
The AI is deliberately not called here. A slow or failing model request must not turn into a failed upload for someone who did nothing wrong, and the photos may be the only copy — the item is often no longer in the sender's hands. The row waits at state 'queued' for #223.
The new limiter keys on the caller alone, since a submission carries no email. keyByCallerAndEmail's comment warns that a bare ip bucket is a shared allowance, and that trade is taken knowingly: the link is the per-caller identity and its cap is the per-caller bound, while this limiter does the different job of bounding what one address can throw at an endpoint that writes files. Twenty per fifteen minutes is deliberately looser than the password-reset allowance — somebody photographing a box of stock legitimately submits several in a row, and refusing them costs a consignment.
Because the route mounts the shared uploadImages, it inherits the type allowlist, the magic-byte check and #226's EXIF stripping without asking for any of them. A test asserts the stripping specifically, since this is the route where it matters most: the photo comes from a stranger's phone rather than the shop's own camera.
Backend: 284 integration (12 new), 309 unit, lint unchanged at 6 pre-existing warnings, build clean.
Ref #222
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