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@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ Start reading at the [GitHub wiki](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki).
 
 Examples of how to use PHPMailer for common scenarios can be found in the [examples](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/master/examples) folder. If you're looking for a good starting point, we recommend you start with [the Gmail example](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/master/examples/gmail.phps).
 
+Note that in order to reduce PHPMailer's deployed code footprint, the examples are no longer included if you load PHPMailer via composer or via [GitHub's zip file download](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/archive/master.zip), so you'll need to either clone the git repository or use the above links to get to the examples directly.
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 Complete generated API documentation is [available online](http://phpmailer.github.io/PHPMailer/).
 
 You can generate complete API-level documentation by running `phpdoc` in the top-level folder, and documentation will appear in teh `docs` folder, though you'll need to have [PHPDocumentor](http://www.phpdoc.org) installed. You may find [the unit tests](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/master/test/phpmailerTest.php) a good source of how to do various operations such as encryption.