On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Sky Kok <sky.kok@speaklikeaking.com> wrote:
Anyway, sometimes when people review my patches for CPython, they send me a notice through Rietveld Code Review Tool which later will send an email to me. However, my GMail spam filter is aggressive so the email will always be classified as spam because it fails spf checking. So if Taylor Swift clicks 'send email' in Rietveld after reviewing my patch, Rietveld will send email to me but the email pretends as if it is sent from taylor@swift.com. Hence, failing spf checking.
Maybe we shouldn't pretend as someone else when sending email through Rietveld?
That's not the fault of Gmail, except perhaps in that no rejection will have gone to the originating server. The solution is exactly as you say. The "From" can still say taylor@swift.com, but the envelope-from (the "MAIL FROM:" at protocol level) should be an address that can cope with bounces. ChrisA