[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/3] README: add hint on git send-email vs flooding protection

[Kevin Traynor]

On 04/02/2021 12:09, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  README | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 3e4978a..771b97e 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ changes. To aid this, a personal repo like github can be used to store the queue
>  patches and it can be referenced in the email. If it is available it is set it
>  in lib.sh with QUEUED_REPO.
>  
> +Note:
> +Once generally configured git send-email can submit those via:
> +  $ git send-email $release/$date/mail/*.patch
> +But some email providers will apply limits and a DPDK LTS maintainers often send
> +>100 mails at once. To avoid being blocked in between a submission by flood
> +protection that is active for some common providers smtp services consider
> +adding the following to your gitconfig:
> +    [sendemail]
> +        smtpBatchSize = 5
> +        smtpReloginDelay = 10
> +
>  3-request-backport
>  ==================
>  
> 

Ah, so *that* is why they never replied... :-)

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>