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+---
+"@objectstack/platform-objects": patch
+---
+
+fix(platform-objects): `sys_email.error` field help now covers pre-delivery rejections, not only transport failures
+
+`sys_email.error` was declared as *"Transport error message when status=failed"*.
+Since `EmailService.recordRejectedMessage` landed, the same column also carries
+the reason a message was rejected by `normalizeMessage` **before** it reached a
+transport (an unsendable `from`, no recipient, no subject, no body) — those rows
+are written with `status: 'failed'` too, prefixed `rejected before delivery: `.
+
+Nothing was misleading in the *data*: the row prefixes its own reason, so an
+operator reading a failed row is never sent chasing an SMTP host for a message
+that never reached one. What was stale was the field's declared `description`,
+which Studio surfaces as the field's help text — it named only the transport
+case, narrower than what the column has held since that change landed.
+
+The description now reads: *"Why the message failed — a transport error, or the
+validation that rejected it before delivery."* It stays true under both row
+shapes and deliberately does not name the row's own `rejected before delivery:`
+prefix, so it will not go stale again if that prefix's wording changes.