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

[Christian Ehrhardt]

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
 ==================
 
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