[Squeakland] Mailing list reminders send plain-text password
Michael Rueger
michael at squeakland.org
Fri Mar 2 07:01:21 PST 2007
francois schnell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I also subscribed to many mailman malling-list and I've just checked
> them. A lot of them show a clear password at the end of the reminder but
> not all of them send this reminder mail.
...
> I've never seen that my passwords was sent in this mails: the mails are
> called "mailing list memberships reminder" and I already know I'm a
> mailing list member and so I have no reasons to check this. Mailman
> should call this "mailing list memberships and *clear password*
> reminder" IMO.
As you already mentioned, this is something that is common to all
mailman installations, so not a squeakland specific "problem".
As a general hint: it is generally not a good idea to use a password for
mailing lists that is also used for other (real) accounts.
Michael
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