docs: add a paragraph explaining the `sendmailCmd` option of sendemail

`sendmailCmd` is a configuration option in `git-send-email` that allows
users to send emails using an external application that supports
sendmail-like commands. This ability has been very useful to support
proprietary email APIs without modifying the `git-send-email` codebase.
It is also useful for users who prefer to use another SMTP client
instead of the SMTP perl library used by `git-send-email`.
This commit adds a paragraph to the documentation explaining this
option.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
index b31145901c75391d6e9af0aae930dbf8a8c55b6f..6556f949a1034b8c79d5afa77be50ccf988bda69 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
@@ -619,6 +619,35 @@ These additional Perl modules are also required:
 https://metacpan.org/pod/Authen::SASL[Authen::SASL] and
 https://metacpan.org/pod/Mail::Address[Mail::Address].
 
+Exploiting the `sendmailCmd` option of `git send-email`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Apart from sending emails via an SMTP server, `git send-email` can also send
+emails through any application that supports sendmail-like commands. You can
+read documentation of `--sendmail-cmd=<command>` above for more information.
+This ability can be very useful if you want to use another application as an
+SMTP client for `git send-email`, or if your email provider uses proprietary
+APIs instead of SMTP to send emails.
+
+As an example, lets see how to configure https://marlam.de/msmtp/[msmtp], a
+popular SMTP client found in many Linux distributions. Edit `~/.gitconfig`
+to instruct `git-send-email` to use it for sending emails.
+
+----
+[sendemail]
+       sendmailCmd = /usr/bin/msmtp # Change this to the path where msmtp is installed
+----
+
+Links of a few such community maintained helpers are:
+
+       - https://marlam.de/msmtp/[msmtp]
+         (popular SMTP client with many features, available for Linux and macOS)
+
+       - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-protonmail]
+         (cross platform client that can send emails using the ProtonMail API)
+
+       - https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email[git-msgraph]
+         (cross platform client that can send emails using the Microsoft Graph API)
 
 SEE ALSO
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