Email from Rietveld Code Review Tool is classified as spam

Dear comrades, Merry Christmas for you who celebrates Christmas! Happy holidays for you who don't. 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. Take an example where R. David Murray commented on my patch, I wouldn't know about it if I did not click Spam folder out of the blue. I remember in the past I had ignored Serhiy Storchaka's advice for months because his message was buried in spam folder. Maybe we shouldn't pretend as someone else when sending email through Rietveld? Cheers, Vajrasky Kok

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

On 25.12.14 05:56, Sky Kok 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.
Take an example where R. David Murray commented on my patch, I wouldn't know about it if I did not click Spam folder out of the blue. I remember in the past I had ignored Serhiy Storchaka's advice for months because his message was buried in spam folder.
Maybe we shouldn't pretend as someone else when sending email through Rietveld?
participants (3)
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Chris Angelico
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Serhiy Storchaka
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Sky Kok