Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v12 00/46] SEV-ES guest support

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 07/28/20 14:52, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 7/28/20 5:07 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 07/27/20 19:49, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I always get an error when I reach 40 emails:
>>>
>>> Reported error: 550 5.0.350 Remote server returned an error -> 500 We have
>>> received more than 40 messages in 30 minutes from you. To guard against
>>> autoresponder mail loops, we must reject additional messages from you
>>> temporarily. Please try again later.
>>>
>>> So I usually have to wait a few hours and resend the last ones so they
>>> make it to groups.io.
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> Phil found one way to deal with this non-interactively: see the
>> "sendemail.smtpBatchSize" and "sendemail.smtpReloginDelay" git-config
>> options. From git-send-email(1):
>>
>>        --batch-size=<num>
>>            Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number
>>            emails to be sent per session (connection) and this will
>>            lead to a failure when sending many messages. With this
>>            option, send-email will disconnect after sending $<num>
>>            messages and wait for a few seconds (see --relogin-delay)
>>            and reconnect, to work around such a limit. You may want to
>>            use some form of credential helper to avoid having to
>>            retype your password every time this happens. Defaults to
>>            the sendemail.smtpBatchSize configuration variable.
>>
>>        --relogin-delay=<int>
>>            Waiting $<int> seconds before reconnecting to SMTP server.
>>            Used together with --batch-size option. Defaults to the
>>            sendemail.smtpReloginDelay configuration variable.
>>
>> That way the "second batch" should need no manual work, hopefully.
> 
> I've tried with and without batch-size and relogin-delay. My initial
> submissions were without these parameters and I hit the 40 email limit. I
> later tried a batch-size of 1 with a relogin-delay of 1 and that still
> results in the 40 email limit. I haven't tried any combinations of a
> larger batch-size.
> 
> I don't think groups.io has a per-session limit, I think it is actually
> tracking individual emails over a period of time, so I don't think these
> parameters do anything for that.

Thank you for explaining.

I've now filed a request with <support@groups.io> to raise the limit (on
this list only) to 200 messages per 30 minutes. That should allow people
to post large series *and* to respond to other (unrelated)
email threads as well, in the normal course of their workday.

Thanks
Laszlo