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

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2011, 09:28 UTC
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Hi Matthieu and Georgi,
Matthieu Moy 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.

Ah, it looks like I missed the earlier discussion/ patch- sorry. Yes, I've also wondered what to do about the order in which patches appear in reply to the cover letter- I was of the opinion that it was a minor inconvenience that we have to put up with that until SMTP servers learn to fix these things. Slowing things down a little bit for now until they catch up is probably a good idea.

Georgi Chorbadzhiyski writes:
> See for example this: http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/dvblast-devel/2011-August/thread.html
> The thread named: [dvblast-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Post git migration changes
> See how 1,3,4/4 are not detected to be part of the thread even when
> all headers are set correctly by git-send-email.

This is a far more serious problem. For this, I was toying with the idea of special cover-letter handling in git-send-email. My idea was that it should essentially send the cover letter, wait for a second and then send all the other emails concurrently. Sure, slowing the entire process down would work too, but it's not so elegant.

Thanks.
-- Ram
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Message 4 of 17 in “send-mail: Add option to sleep between sending each email.”
  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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