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

The existing version of Sendmail::Milter on CPAN has been unmaintained for almost two decades. It does not handle the current milter protocol version (version 6) and it has a number of documented faults. All this severely limits its application.

The existing version of Sendmail::PMilter on CPAN was also abandoned some time ago.

With help from the previous maintainer of Sendmail::PMilter I've taken over its maintainership. I'd like to do the same for Sendmail::Milter because the current version of Sendmail::PMilter uses it.

I've been unable to contact the current maintainer of Sendmail::Milter.

I've created a new version of Sendmail::PMilter (not yet published) which fixes outstanding issues in that module. It uses a new module (also not yet published) which I've created to avoid the outstanding problems in Sendmail::Milter.
I've called the new module Sendmail::MilterV6.

Rather than add to the plethora of modules which do similar things, I'd rather not publish Sendmail::MilterV6 at all if I can instead just bring Sendmail::Milter into the 21st century.

If anyone here can point me in the right direction to find the existing maintainer of Sendmail::Milter I'd be very grateful.
I started the ball rolling with the cpan.org/perl.org administrators a few weeks ago.

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Re: Looking for the maintainer of Sendmail::Milter.
by marto (Cardinal) on May 01, 2018 at 11:24 UTC

    A search for the authors name yields this (linking to various 'social' media channels), showing past involvement/employment with Sendmail, the name & domain listed there matches this github profile, the details listed on cpan also match with the details on crunchbase.

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      I'm sure that's the guy, thank you, and well done. I'd traced him as far as UC Berkeley but then the trail seemed to get confused with some famous singer.

      I'll drop him a line now.

      Thanks again.

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        Well finally I got an unconvincing and unhelpful reply from the existing maintainer of Sendmail::Milter, but nothing yet from modules@perl.org.

        Can someone tell me if I send mail to modules@perl.org what IP address/addresses a reply might come from?

        I ask because I've seen no reply to several messages that I've sent to that address, and I'm beginning to wonder if I might accidentally have firewalled the replies.

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