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Documentation: process: Revert "Document suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development"

Revert commit 1d2ed9234c85 ("Documentation: process: Document
suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development") as Proton disabled
WKD for kernel.org addresses as a result of some interaction with
Konstantin on social.kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Kanak Shilledar <kanakshilledar111@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240516-groin-slingshot-c3c3734d2f10@spud

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Conor Dooley and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 9c03bc90 23a0bc28

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Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
··· 350 350 351 351 Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has a 352 352 non-ASCII character. That includes things like European names. 353 - 354 - Proton Mail 355 - *********** 356 - 357 - Proton Mail has a "feature" where it looks up keys using Web Key Directory 358 - (WKD) and encrypts mail to any recipients for which it finds a key. 359 - Kernel.org publishes the WKD for all developers who have kernel.org accounts. 360 - As a result, emails sent using Proton Mail to kernel.org addresses will be 361 - encrypted. 362 - Unfortunately, Proton Mail does not provide a mechanism to disable the 363 - automatic encryption, viewing it as a privacy feature. 364 - The automatic encryption feature is also enabled for mail sent via the Proton 365 - Mail Bridge, so this affects all outgoing messages, including patches sent with 366 - ``git send-email``. 367 - Encrypted mail adds unnecessary friction, as other developers may not have mail 368 - clients, or tooling, configured for use with encrypted mail and some mail 369 - clients may encrypt responses to encrypted mail for all recipients, including 370 - the mailing lists. 371 - Unless a way to disable this "feature" is introduced, Proton Mail is unsuited 372 - to kernel development.