Mark Sapiro wrote at 05:49 PM 2/28/2009: >>What is supposed to happen when a non-listmember tries to get a password >>reminder from the member options page? >> >>I tried it myself after trying to figure out if a member was using the wrong >>email address, and the web page said, "A reminder of your password has been >>emailed to you." > >The issue is your list's membership is not public, so we can't reveal >that the person requesting the reminder is not a member or this could >be used to fish for list membership. Granted the message should be >better (i.e. more ambiguous about whether the reminder is actually >sent), but the bottom line is if the address is a non-member, no >reminder is sent.
Thanks, Mark. I hope the message can change in some future version. >>I also discovered that one of my four lists doesn't even send out the >>passwords to subscribed members after saying the reminders were sent. I tried >>this on my own subscribed name and it failed. If folks can tell me what might >>be wrong here as well, I will pass it on to DreamHost tech support which has >>been quite responsive in the past. > > >Reminders are supposed to work for subscribed members. I don't know why >they wouldn't. As a debug technique, you could temporarily set I hit up DreamHost support on this, and they said they changed a setting, and that if it still did not work I would need to give them temporary Admin access to the list so they could check on things. I tried a reminder, and they still were not working. I went to the Admin pages and reviewed carefully all the settings (again), and discovered that umbrella_list was set to Yes. I set it to No, and the reminders began working. I suppose that setting could have been at Yes all along, but I didn't think so. - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael Welch, volunteer Redwood Alliance PO Box 293 Arcata, CA 95518 707-822-7884 mwe...@redwoodalliance.org www.redwoodalliance.org ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
