diff --git a/deploy/mavend.json b/deploy/mavend.json
index 0ea21ad..79875df 100644
--- a/deploy/mavend.json
+++ b/deploy/mavend.json
@@ -16,7 +16,17 @@
 
   "telegram": {
     "bot_token": "${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}",
-    "chat_id": "${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}"
+    "chat_id": "${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}",
+
+    "//proxy": [
+      "api.telegram.org is not reachable directly from this box, so every send",
+      "timed out. The relay is the x-ui socks inbound on the host, port 10808;",
+      "192.168.240.1 is the maven_default bridge gateway, which is how a",
+      "container addresses the host. mavend is on that network.",
+      "This needs a matching ufw rule or the container's SYN is dropped:",
+      "  ufw allow from 192.168.240.0/20 to any port 10808 proto tcp"
+    ],
+    "proxy": "socks5://192.168.240.1:10808"
   },
 
   "digest": {