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FWIW: The giant PITA here turns out to be Gmail, which requires some extra configuration plus an "App-Password" for untrusted clients. It seems this app-password is used instead of the real password (?) and that this mechanism is due to be deactivated from 2025 on (WTF?).

So the only viable route seems to be to only poll one reliable email account and to forward from all others to this one.

So the plan is:

Comments?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^2: Password email round-trip monitoring
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 29, 2024 at 03:02 UTC
    Update:

    Despite the SPAM-denial problems, I got automated roundtrip-testing working

    By forwarding the email from

    • @cpan.org which doesn't care about SPF (and is rumored to be replaced/abandoned)
    • to @gmail.com which tolerates forwards from cpan.org even if they look like spam ("soft-fail")
    • to @gmx.de (technical user) which still allows reading the emails with Perl and without 2-factor authentication.

    Takes a while, but works. Alas don't use the same @cpan.org email for multiple accounts!. This bug did cost me a day.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery