[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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