SPF (Sender Policy Framework) was introduced in April 2006 in RFC4408 in order to prevent spam mails / fake mails. Many providers support SPF by now. However, SPF needs to be configured properly in order to function.

As the opensuse.org emails get redirected by suse.de, SPF will block those mails send to you in the default configuration if the senders’ provider also uses SPF. It seems this is a newly implemented feature by suse.de as I started to have trouble with my opensuse.org address just last week (I might as well be wrong about that. I clearly am not an SPF expert). Furthermore, not every email will be rejected, only the ones that can make use of SPF. So it is hard to find the problem if you are not informed by someone else whose email was rejected.

So maybe you want to check if your provider uses SPF. This can be done here. If he does there are three ways to counteract blocking emails that are send to you via your opensuse.org address: Read the rest of this entry »