I know that this part of using CPAN::Reporter is frustrating and I appreciate the patience and effort people put in to trying to make it work.

There has been some very loose discussion among the Test::Reporter maintainer(s), the perl.org admins, chorny and me of switching to HTTP for submitting reports. I believe chorny has an alpha patch for Test::Reporter for HTTP submission, but doesn't have a gateway to get it into the CPAN Testers inbox. So it's a work in progress.

Note -- This would be an excellent project for a Perl Hackathon somewhere.

In the meantime, if someone would like to provide an example of configuring a local relay, I'd be happy to add the instructions for it to the CPAN::Reporter FAQ.