{"thread":{"id":"66293","subject":"git send-email bug, sending cuts off to rate limit","startedAt":"2026-09-08T13:29:00Z","lastAt":"2026-09-08T13:29:00Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Juha-Matti Tilli"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"552210","messageId":"394c3f65-80e0-4cb5-b8d1-8d8e2af25d5f@app.fastmail.com","threadId":"66293","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git send-email bug, sending cuts off to rate limit","fromName":"Juha-Matti Tilli","fromEmail":"juha-matti.tilli@iki.fi","sentAt":"2026-09-08T13:27:55Z","receivedAt":"2026-09-08T13:29:00Z","isPatch":false,"body":"Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!\nPlease answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.\n\nWhat did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)\n\nI prepared a series of patches to Linux kernel mailing list:\n\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908093145.2492666-1-juha-matti.tilli@iki.fi/\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908093437.2493698-1-juha-matti.tilli@iki.fi/\n\nThere were 18 recipients per mail and 13 mails total. Then I ran git\nsend-email, and pressed \"y\" at every prompt. At mail 8/12 (ninth mail since\ncounting starts from zero), I got cut off:\n\n4.7.1 Error: too many recipients from 83.150.90.33\n\nWhat did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)\n\nI'd expect Git to sleep for a while such as 60 seconds, and ask the user\nif the user wants to continue.\n\nWhat happened instead? (Actual behavior)\n\nGit immediately exited. Then when I continued from the first patch that\nwas not sent, I later embarrassingly found that they were in a different\nthread.\n\nWhat's different between what you expected and what actually happened?\n\nGit shouldn't exit if the error is clearly an SMTP rate limiting error.\n\nAnything else you want to add:\n\nIn the next patchset, I'm going to use --batch-size=4 --relogin-delay=60\n\nBut it's too late to fix the already sent embarrassing mails.\n\nPlease review the rest of the bug report below.\nYou can delete any lines you don't wish to share.\n\n\n[System Info]\ngit version:\ngit version 2.34.1\ncpu: x86_64\nno commit associated with this build\nsizeof-long: 8\nsizeof-size_t: 8\nshell-path: /bin/sh\nuname: Linux 6.8.0-138-generic #138~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug  7 13:43:15 UTC  x86_64\ncompiler info: gnuc: 11.4\nlibc info: glibc: 2.35\n$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash\n\n\n[Enabled Hooks]\nnot run from a git repository - no hooks to show\n"}]}