Added note about forked smtp package

Additionally added new feature references and updated contributors section
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<!--
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Winni Neessen <winni@neessen.dev>
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2023 The go-mail Authors
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
-->
@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Parts of this library (especially some parts of [msgwriter.go](msgwriter.go)) ha
[go-mail/mail](https://github.com/go-mail/mail) respectively [go-gomail/gomail](https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail)
which both seems to not be maintained anymore.
The smtp package of go-mail is forked from the original Go stdlib's `net/smtp` and then extended by the go-mail
team.
## Features
Some of the features of this library:
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* [X] Message object satisfies `io.WriteTo` and `io.Reader` interfaces
* [X] Support for Go's `html/template` and `text/template` (as message body, alternative part or attachment/emebed)
* [X] Output to file support which allows storing mail messages as e. g. `.eml` files to disk to open them in a MUA
* [X] Debug logging of SMTP traffic
* [X] Custom error types for delivery errors
go-mail works like a programatic email client and provides lots of methods and functionalities you would consider
standard in a MUA.
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We provide example code in both our GoDocs as well as on our official Website (see [Documentation](#documentation)). For a quick start into go-mail
check out our [Getting started](https://go-mail.dev/getting-started/introduction/) guide.
## Contributors
Thanks to the following people for contributing to the go-mail project:
## Authors/Contributors
go-mail was initially authored and developed by [Winni Neessen](https://github.com/wneessen/).
Big thanks to the following people, for contributing to the go-mail project (either in form of code or by
reviewing code, writing documenation or helping to translate the website):
* [Dhia Gharsallaoui](https://github.com/dhia-gharsallaoui)
* [inliquid](https://github.com/inliquid)
* [iwittkau](https://github.com/iwittkau)
* [James Elliott](https://github.com/james-d-elliott)
* [Maria Letta](https://github.com/MariaLetta) (designed the go-mail logo)