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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: