[Gate-users] Stop sending plain text passwords!

[David Sarrut]

Hello,

yes, as Mojca said, it should be feasible to change the default option and
set password reminder to OFF. We will contact administration for that.

David

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:53 AM Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 10:49, Ben Pietras wrote:
> >
> > Please stop sending passwords monthly in plain text! If the user forgets
> their password, set up an reset link system. Very bad practice!
>
> I'm not involved with Gate organisations, but you should direct your
> concerns to Mailman rather than Gate:
>     https://www.list.org/
>
> That said, I believe that mailman has a setting in the admin interface
> about whether or not to send monthly password reminders, with the
> default being set to ON.
> The list admin should thus be able to switch those notifications off.
> But emails will likely continue to be stored in plain text on the
> server unless you complain loud enough or send a suitable patch to
> Mailman.
>
> Mojca
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