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"Wikimedia Foundation mail couldn't verify phabricator.wikimedia.org actually sent this message (and not a spammer)" in GMail
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I am reading Phab email threads in my Gmail WMF account.
I notice that sometimes the icon next to the name of the person who filed or commented a task is not the usual grey silhouette, but a grey octagon with a red question mark on it.
On hover, the message in this task's title appears.
So far, I haven't been able to figure out why a distinction is made. A person commenting twice in the thread may have the silhouette icon the first time and the octagon the second.
It's not also not always/only the task creator.

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Aklapper renamed this task from "Wikimedia Foundation mail couldn't verify phabricator.wikimedia.org actually sent this message (and not a spammer)" to "Wikimedia Foundation mail couldn't verify phabricator.wikimedia.org actually sent this message (and not a spammer)" in GMail.Aug 31 2016, 10:02 AM
greg triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 31 2016, 4:56 PM
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Confirming on my end (I notice it when reading bugmail on my phone via the gmail app).

Based off of:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/pqx8Wq_Csxw
then
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/02/making-email-safer-for-you-posted-by.html
then
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/180707?hl=en&ref_topic=3404236

this seems to be a SPF/DKIM related issue.

This will probably be resolved once T116805 is resolved.

Can confirm. I have phabricator.wikimedia.org whitelisted, otherwise my phab notification would be sent to spam. Maybe we should consider this as an UBN, as most probably this sends emails for some users to spam.

SPF recently got fixed in T216714; wondering if folks still experience this?

SPF recently got fixed in T216714; wondering if folks still experience this?

No reply. Assuming this is resolved.

Please reopen this task if you still experience this problem.