[PATCH 5/5] docs: mention possible options for Proton Mail users

From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@proton.me>
Date: Jun 30, 2025, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20250630180511.499-6-gargaditya08@proton.me>
In-Reply-To: <20250630180511.499-1-gargaditya08@proton.me>

From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>

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>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
index 6556f949a1..5335502d68 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
@@ -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:

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2.50.0.windows.1