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Description

Roadmap and ATLAS need batch sending and common message options to use Clerk for more outbound email flows. This adds experimental emails.createBatch() and extends emails.create() with display names, cross-domain Reply-To, CC/BCC, attachments, and restricted custom headers.

Batch results preserve input order and expose each message's email or API errors independently. Each item can carry its own idempotency key; a failed or interrupted submission is not automatically retried. Header names and attachment content are passed through without recursively renaming their keys.

This is the SDK companion to the backend/API/worker PR, which also includes the service documentation and pilot handoff. Deploy that backend change to the API and all email workers before publishing and using these options. Existing single-send callers remain supported. Delivery-outcome webhooks and inbound mail are not included.

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  • pnpm test runs as expected.
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  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
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The email API adds rich message fields and shared request transformation for single-email creation. It adds createBatch for 1–100 messages with per-message idempotency keys, independent success or error results, response deserialization, and retry metadata. Tests cover serialization, validation, mixed results, and retry behavior. A changeset documents the experimental batch support.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8df42

The batch result-order contract is preserved, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Description check ✅ Passed The description directly covers the new transactional email batching support and the added message options. It also states compatibility, deployment requirements, exclusions, and test status.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: transactional email batches and additional message options in the backend SDK.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/backend/src/api/__tests__/EmailApi.test.ts`:
- Around line 140-142: Add a test alongside the existing empty-batch case in the
email API tests that passes 101 messages to emails.createBatch, asserts the
rejection references the 1–100 limit, and verifies no request is sent.

In `@packages/backend/src/api/endpoints/EmailApi.ts`:
- Around line 125-129: Add complete JSDoc for the public symbols
CreateBatchEmailParams, BatchEmailResult, and createBatch, including `@param`,
`@returns`, `@throws`, and `@example` tags. Document the messages input, ordered
per-item results, success and error fields, request-level failures, retry
behavior, and an example that narrows the BatchEmailResult union.
- Around line 220-229: Update the batch result handling in EmailApi to sort a
copy of results by result.index before mapping, preserving input order without
mutating the API response. In packages/backend/src/api/endpoints/EmailApi.ts
lines 220-229, apply this ordering before constructing BatchEmailResult values;
in packages/backend/src/api/__tests__/EmailApi.test.ts lines 31-87, reverse the
success and failure fixtures and assert the returned array remains in input
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In `@packages/backend/src/api/__tests__/EmailApi.test.ts`:
- Around line 159-171: Add a separate test for an interrupted batch submission
using the existing createBatch flow and request counter, configure the mocked
POST handler to reject the transport fetch rather than return an HTTP 503
response, and assert that createBatch rejects after exactly one request.
- Around line 141-157: Extend the createBatch boundary test to include a
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