docs: mention possible options for Proton Mail users
Proton Mail is an privacy-focused email service gaining popularity. Unfortunately, it does not provide an SMTP server to send emails. Proton Mail Bridge is an official solution for paid users, and for free users, a client named git-protonmail is available. Mention the same in the docs. Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -606,6 +606,14 @@ available online. Community maintained credential helpers are also available:
You can also see linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more OAuth based authentication
helpers.
+Proton Mail does not provide an SMTP server to send emails. If you are a paid
+customer of Proton Mail, you can use
+https://proton.me/mail/bridge[Proton Mail Bridge]
+officially provided by Proton Mail to create a local SMTP server for sending
+emails. For both free and paid users, community maintained projects like
+https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-protonmail] can be
+used.
+
Note: the following core Perl modules that may be installed with your
distribution of Perl are required: