On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 14:29:09 Arun Khan wrote: >> If it is sent encrypted then how does one decrypt it? >> > > password reminder is actually rather silly as now a days every one has a 'lost > your password' link (including mailman). And no one puts in a password when > subscribing anyway - so what mailman is reminding one of is the automatically > generated password.
The bigger point is that even the "lost your password" links send the password in text and the point being made was that the passwords are sent in clear text to the user's mailbox - does not matter whether it is Maiman or any other zillion services on the 'Net. -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
