add server.alerts: Alertmanager with email notifications

Turns the Alertmanager wiring sketched out in conversation into an option, and
ships the alerting rules rather than leaving them as something to copy out of a
chat log.

  services.telemetry.server.alerts = {
    enable = true;
    to = [ "you@example.com" ];
    from = "alerts@example.com";
    smarthost = "smtp.fastmail.com:587";
    username = "alerts@example.com";
    passwordFile = config.sops.secrets.smtp-password.path;
  };

passwordFile becomes smtp_auth_password_file, read at runtime, so the password
never enters the store. `settings` is merged over the generated configuration
for inhibit rules and severity routing. Alerts group by alertname and host, so
nine failing drives on one machine arrive as one mail.

rules/alerts.yml carries twelve alerts: drive failing, degraded, failed
self-test, overheating; pool not ONLINE, unrepairable data errors, over 85%
full, scrub or snapshots overdue; exporter down, collector stale, textfile parse
error. Most are one-liners because rules/smartctl.yml has already reduced drive
health to a single smartctl:health_code. ExporterDown earns its place by
covering the case where a machine vanishes and every other alert goes quiet.

Alertmanager is defined inside the existing services.prometheus block: Nix will
not let one attrset both define services.prometheus wholesale and add a path
beneath it. Same shape as the grafana settings fix in 89f2c32.

Verified by building both ways. Enabled: two promtool-checked rule files, an
amtool-checked Alertmanager config with the password file, and Prometheus
pointing at 127.0.0.1:9093. Disabled: no alertmanager unit, one rule file, no
alerting stanza. The README's rule-override and alerts.settings snippets were
also built rather than written from memory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JKczN1f66kmLxNBLX37voQ

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+## Email alerts
+
+`alerts.enable` brings up Alertmanager, points Prometheus at it, and loads a set of
+alerting rules:
+
+```nix
+services.telemetry.server = {
+  enable = true;
+  collectorHosts = [ "poweredge" "optiplex" ];
+
+  alerts = {
+    enable = true;
+    to        = [ "you@example.com" ];
+    from      = "alerts@example.com";
+    smarthost = "smtp.fastmail.com:587";
+    username  = "alerts@example.com";
+    passwordFile = config.sops.secrets.smtp-password.path;
+  };
+};
+```
+
+`passwordFile` is handed to Alertmanager as `smtp_auth_password_file` and read at
+runtime, so the password never enters the Nix store. Drop `username` and `passwordFile`
+for an unauthenticated local relay.
+
+### What it alerts on
+
+Shipped in `rules/alerts.yml`, loaded unless you set `alerts.defaultRules = false`:
+
+| | condition | severity |
+|---|---|---|
+| `DriveFailing` | SMART self-assessment failed, an attribute is below its threshold, or uncorrectable errors | critical |
+| `DriveCaution` | reallocated/pending sectors, or a non-empty SAS grown defect list | warning |
+| `SelfTestFailed` | last short or extended self-test did not pass | critical |
+| `DriveOverheating` | above 55 °C for 30 minutes | warning |
+| `PoolNotOnline` | pool is DEGRADED, FAULTED, … | critical |
+| `PoolDataErrors` | errors ZFS could not repair from redundancy | critical |
+| `PoolNearlyFull` | over 85% | warning |
+| `ScrubOverdue` | no completed scrub in 45 days | warning |
+| `SnapshotsOverdue` | auto-snapshot timer has missed two intervals | warning |
+| `ExporterDown` | `up == 0` for 10 minutes | critical |
+| `CollectorStale` | a `.prom` file has not been refreshed in 30 minutes | warning |
+| `TextfileParseError` | node\_exporter could not parse a collector's output | warning |
+
+Most are one-liners because `rules/smartctl.yml` has already reduced drive health to a
+single `smartctl:health_code` per drive. Every alert carries the `host` label, so the
+mail tells you which machine.
+
+`ExporterDown` matters more than it looks: without it, every other alert here goes quiet
+when a machine disappears — absence of data is not absence of a problem.
+
+### Changing the rules
+
+Thresholds are not options. Copy the file, edit it, and swap it in:
+
+```nix
+services.telemetry.server = {
+  alerts.defaultRules = false;
+  prometheus.ruleFiles = [
+    "${inputs.telemetry}/rules/smartctl.yml"   # keep: the health verdict lives here
+    ./my-alerts.yml
+  ];
+};
+```
+
+`promtool` runs over whatever you supply at build time, so a bad expression fails
+`nixos-rebuild` rather than at 3am.
+
+For routing — inhibit rules, a second receiver, severity-based routes — use
+`alerts.settings`, which is merged over the generated Alertmanager config:
+
+```nix
+alerts.settings.route.routes = [{
+  matchers = [ "severity=\"warning\"" ];
+  receiver = "email";
+  repeat_interval = "7d";        # nag less about warnings
+}];
+```
+
+### Notes
+
+- Alertmanager's port is opened by `openFirewall` along with Prometheus'. Its UI is where
+  you silence alerts — and anyone who can reach it can silence anything, same trust model
+  as the Prometheus port.
+- Alerts are grouped by `alertname` and `host`, so nine failing drives on one machine
+  arrive as one mail. `alerts.repeatInterval` (default 24h) decides how often a
+  still-firing alert nags you.
+- Alertmanager runs `envsubst` over its config at start, so a literal `${...}` in any
+  string you add via `alerts.settings` will be substituted.
+
 ## Layout
 
 ```