Add a module type for account validity (#9884)

This adds an API for third-party plugin modules to implement account validity, so they can provide this feature instead of Synapse. The module implementing the current behaviour for this feature can be found at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-email-account-validity.

To allow for a smooth transition between the current feature and the new module, hooks have been added to the existing account validity endpoints to allow their behaviours to be overridden by a module.

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diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml
index a45732a246..f4845a5841 100644
--- a/docs/sample_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml
@@ -1310,91 +1310,6 @@ account_threepid_delegates:
 #auto_join_rooms_for_guests: false
 
 
-## Account Validity ##
-
-# Optional account validity configuration. This allows for accounts to be denied
-# any request after a given period.
-#
-# Once this feature is enabled, Synapse will look for registered users without an
-# expiration date at startup and will add one to every account it found using the
-# current settings at that time.
-# This means that, if a validity period is set, and Synapse is restarted (it will
-# then derive an expiration date from the current validity period), and some time
-# after that the validity period changes and Synapse is restarted, the users'
-# expiration dates won't be updated unless their account is manually renewed. This
-# date will be randomly selected within a range [now + period - d ; now + period],
-# where d is equal to 10% of the validity period.
-#
-account_validity:
-  # The account validity feature is disabled by default. Uncomment the
-  # following line to enable it.
-  #
-  #enabled: true
-
-  # The period after which an account is valid after its registration. When
-  # renewing the account, its validity period will be extended by this amount
-  # of time. This parameter is required when using the account validity
-  # feature.
-  #
-  #period: 6w
-
-  # The amount of time before an account's expiry date at which Synapse will
-  # send an email to the account's email address with a renewal link. By
-  # default, no such emails are sent.
-  #
-  # If you enable this setting, you will also need to fill out the 'email' and
-  # 'public_baseurl' configuration sections.
-  #
-  #renew_at: 1w
-
-  # The subject of the email sent out with the renewal link. '%(app)s' can be
-  # used as a placeholder for the 'app_name' parameter from the 'email'
-  # section.
-  #
-  # Note that the placeholder must be written '%(app)s', including the
-  # trailing 's'.
-  #
-  # If this is not set, a default value is used.
-  #
-  #renew_email_subject: "Renew your %(app)s account"
-
-  # Directory in which Synapse will try to find templates for the HTML files to
-  # serve to the user when trying to renew an account. If not set, default
-  # templates from within the Synapse package will be used.
-  #
-  # The currently available templates are:
-  #
-  # * account_renewed.html: Displayed to the user after they have successfully
-  #       renewed their account.
-  #
-  # * account_previously_renewed.html: Displayed to the user if they attempt to
-  #       renew their account with a token that is valid, but that has already
-  #       been used. In this case the account is not renewed again.
-  #
-  # * invalid_token.html: Displayed to the user when they try to renew an account
-  #       with an unknown or invalid renewal token.
-  #
-  # See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates for
-  # default template contents.
-  #
-  # The file name of some of these templates can be configured below for legacy
-  # reasons.
-  #
-  #template_dir: "res/templates"
-
-  # A custom file name for the 'account_renewed.html' template.
-  #
-  # If not set, the file is assumed to be named "account_renewed.html".
-  #
-  #account_renewed_html_path: "account_renewed.html"
-
-  # A custom file name for the 'invalid_token.html' template.
-  #
-  # If not set, the file is assumed to be named "invalid_token.html".
-  #
-  #invalid_token_html_path: "invalid_token.html"
-
-
 ## Metrics ###
 
 # Enable collection and rendering of performance metrics