Reach CPAN authors by emailing to AUTHOR@cpan.ORG?

Intrepid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

Quick question, and dumb: are we supposed to be able to reach CPAN authors by emailing to AUTHOR@cpan.ORG? I tried it on myself an hour ago and there's no message in my inbox.

I'm trying to reach MICHIELB (Michiel Beijen) about test warnings in his module File::MimeInfo

Mar 25, 2025 at 18:31 UTC

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Re: Reach CPAN authors by emailing to AUTHOR@cpan.ORG? by hippo (Archbishop) on Mar 25, 2025 at 22:09 UTC
See @cpan.org email deliverability issues. It is, at best, unreliable. If you really want to reach an author/maintainer, raise a ticket. 🦛	[reply]
Re: Reach CPAN authors by emailing to AUTHOR@cpan.ORG? by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 25, 2025 at 18:50 UTC
The author's page shows a different e-mail address. Also, it's cute to know it took you 6 minutes to write the text, but maybe we don't need so much information. I mean, there's a timestamp attached to each node already. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Reach CPAN authors by emailing to AUTHOR@cpan.ORG? by Intrepid (Curate) on Mar 26, 2025 at 00:46 UTC
LOL, and then LOL again. Thanks for pointing out the email address which I would have noticed had I not been in a hurry and distracted. Still, as a general rule (it seems like I remember this from ages ago) – was there ever a mechanism in place to forward ANAUTHOR@cpan.org to a "private" email address (one that's not spammer-bait)? And yes, my timestamps may be a little redundant :-)	[reply]