On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Sky Kok <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. 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
[email protected], but the envelope-from (the "MAIL FROM:" at protocol
level) should be an address that can cope with bounces.

ChrisA
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