Re: : Mailman Help

On 14-08-04 01:22 PM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> One thing to beware of (and if it's already solved, then great!!!) is
>> that Mailman has the habit of sending monthly notices to subscribers
>> that include a reminder of their list password.

That is one thing I really dislike about mailman based mailing lists. I'm
very surprised that no one has yet fixed that gaping security hole.

> One of the first things I did was disable the monthly password reminder
> on all the GTALUG mailing lists.

Thank you for disabling that feature.

> I don't want GTALUG on the Plain Text Offenders web site:
> <http://plaintextoffenders.com/>.

The one thing I noticed on that list is that people have reported sites that 
send plain text passwords when a person is going through the "forgot my 
password" feature.

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