Fixed an issue where From address was being encoded as a tuple on some email backends #3551
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With this PR we always sanitize the from address before handing it over to the email backend. This will be a redundant call for some backends but will stop the bad encoding on others.
It also avoids sending an empty reply_to header as some very old SMTP servers could have trouble with this.
As a bonus, I added an additional service to docker-compose that allows running the development server against a very simple SMTP server when using the
DEBUG_SMTP
flag (e.g:DEBUG_SMTP=1 make run
closes #3545