I have a few BUY NOW buttons on my page for PayPal. The way its setup now is they buy it then they wait a few hours until I recieve an email and give them the link to download from.

I don't like this method and neither do the people paying for the downloads. Anyway, I've been reading up on PayPal's IPN and it seems like there are a few beautiful modules which do the work for you.

Business::PayPal::IPN seems like a perfect one.

All the tutorials I read on the IPN though state "To ensure that a payment has been made into your PayPal account, you must verify that the email address used as your "receiver_email" has been registered and confirmed in your PayPal account. "

How are you supposed to confirm with a script that their e-mail address is found in your paypal account? All the modules and all the example source code from tutorials SAY this, but none of them give you any idea on what you're supposed to do! I'm stuck and confused. Anyone in here familiar with PayPal mind offering advice?

In reply to Modules for PayPal IPN and usage by coldfingertips

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