Eric Wong <e...@80x24.org> 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.
