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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git send-email sets date
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:32:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX7W4n9Q-uL0t1W1dttAxA=hU69fL9Tqsfe0wj5XP=O44w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180126183230.0ae0c76b@kitsune.suse.cz>

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
> This is wrong because the message will most likely not get delivered
> when the author date differs from current time.

Others have covered other bases here, but I just wanted to ask about
this. Are there really mail setups that refuse to deliver or accept
messages whose Date headers don't match what the expect? I would think
that such issues wouldn't be present in the wild since SMTP daemons
need to deal with messages that are e.g. held locally somewhere, or
the only make it to your server days afterwards due to your own
downtime + client retries.

Now if by "not get delivered" you mean they'll show up on the Nth page
of your mailer because it sorts by the Date header, sure. That's a
problem and quite common, tricky to solve due to the issues others
have noted though.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-28 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-26 17:32 git send-email sets date Michal Suchánek
2018-01-28 15:15 ` brian m. carlson
2018-01-28 15:56   ` Philip Oakley
2018-01-28 22:12     ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-01-30 20:41       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-28 22:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-01-29 12:48   ` Eric Wong
2018-01-30 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano

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