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Re: [PATCH] send-mail: Add option to sleep between sending each email.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2011, 17:12 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> There have been discussion (and IIRC a patch) proposing this already in
> the past. One advantage of sleeping a bit between each email is that it
> increase the chances for the receiver to receive the emails in the right
> order.

Huh? Even in the presense of MTAs in the middle that are free to reorder messages?

IIRC, "git send-email" does its best to force ordering by assigning monotonically increasing timestamps on the Date: field, so that the recipients can sort the messages based on it, in addition to the In-Reply-To field to help threading. I personally do not think there is anything more than that that should done in the program.

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  1. send-mail: Add option to sleep between sending each email.Georgi Chorbadzhiyski, Sep 7, 2011
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 8, 2011
  3. Matthieu MoySep 8, 2011
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 8, 2011
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 8, 2011
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 8, 2011
  7. Georgi ChorbadzhiyskiSep 8, 2011
  8. Matthieu MoySep 8, 2011
  9. Georgi ChorbadzhiyskiSep 8, 2011
  10. Georgi ChorbadzhiyskiSep 8, 2011
  11. Jakub NarebskiOct 3, 2011
  12. Georgi ChorbadzhiyskiSep 8, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2011
  14. Matthieu MoySep 8, 2011
  15. mfwitten@gmail.comSep 9, 2011
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 12, 2011
  17. Georgi ChorbadzhiyskiSep 8, 2011

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