From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:53:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add an option to impose delay sent E-Mails Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20180814184509.GA16659@dcvr> Eric Wong writes: >> Some popular E-Mail clients completely ignore the "Date" header, which >> format-patch is careful to set such that the patches will be displayed >> in order, and instead sort by the time the E-mail was received. It is send-email that carefully shows monotonically increasing timestamps so that the sender's datestamp can be used for sorting by the recipient, not format-patch, which records author-date, primarily meant for local replaying, in the generated messages but discarded by send-email. > Disconnecting during the delay might be more sympathetic to > existing mail servers (which aren't C10K-optimized). If the > client sleeps, the server may disconnect the client anyways > to save resources. > > But maybe --send-delay can be a shortcut for > --relogin-delay and --batch-size=1 Both good points to point at a simpler and better solution, I guess.