Pause Account Email Forwarding

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

This may be sort of out-of-place here, but I didn't see any contact/support links at pause.perl.org.

I'm having a problem with the email settings. I want to link with MetaCPAN, so I need to have my pause email forward to my secret one. On this page, I select the option to forward to my secret email address, but I still receive nothing from MetaCPAN. When I return to the account settings page again later, it once again says that my pause account emails should be forwarded to "neither/nor", which is not what I selected! I searched my spam folder and found nothing, so I think it may be a problem with pause.perl.org.

Am I missing something here? I just need proper email forwarding.

Update: I contacted Andreas Koenig, whose email is posted on pause. He told me not to bother encrypting email to him unless it was for a secret of some kind. The problem was that I didn't notice the errors being displayed on the account settings page. After you click submit, they are displayed in normal black font at the top of the page (which is why I missed them). Mine complained that "CENSORED" was not a real email address (that's what was there for the public email field). So I changed that to be blank, and then it accepted the form and the change to my forwarding settings.

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Re: Pause Account Email Forwarding by Anonymous Monk on Feb 24, 2013 at 20:59 UTC
This may be sort of out-of-place here, but I didn't see any contact/support links at pause.perl.org. Bottom of the page there is an address http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about Read more... (5 kB) So you can send pgp encrypted mail to Andreas Koenig and talk about your secret email forwarding :)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Pause Account Email Forwarding by vsespb (Chaplain) on Feb 25, 2013 at 00:08 UTC
So, I had same issue and tried to contact modules@perl.org about it 20 OCT 2012. Still no answer.	[reply]
Re^3: Pause Account Email Forwarding by nglenn (Beadle) on Feb 27, 2013 at 18:18 UTC
Dang. I guess I'll try the encrypted email thing (never done it before). I'll post if I find anything.	[reply]
Re: Pause Account Email Forwarding (metacpan) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 24, 2013 at 20:47 UTC
but I still receive nothing from MetaCPAN. What would you like to receive? Because, AFAIK, MetaCPAN sends you no mails, so there is nothing to forward?	[reply]
Re^2: Pause Account Email Forwarding (metacpan) by nglenn (Beadle) on Feb 25, 2013 at 16:21 UTC
MetaCPAN sends an email to your PAUSE account in order to link it.	[reply]
Re: Pause Account Email Forwarding by vsespb (Chaplain) on Feb 24, 2013 at 20:48 UTC
Had same issue. something@cpan.org forwarding is not working when forwarding set to secret email. Tried contact someone to report this - no luck too.	[reply]

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