On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:05:20AM +0100, Mailman Admin wrote: > On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: > > > > I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future > > direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for > > this list. > > > > The University of Oregon is migrating away from Majordomo.
Hurrah! ;o) > > We > > decided on Sympa because Mailman sends passwords over email > <... > > > Does anyone know a way around the emailed passwords issue in Mailman, > > clever hacks, certain plugins, or a timeline for Mailman 3's release? > > > You can stop the cronjob used to email reminders. +1 > With this you don't email them to the users, but they will still be > saved in clear text in Mailman. Another way could be to make the 'don't use a valuable password' text more prominent, or enforce some password complexity test. There is the LDAP extension, YMMV. > > I've written a number of Django apps using my own LDAP module, so I > > was also wondering if folks think now is a mature-enough time to > > perhaps grab Mailman 3, its Django front-end, and hack together what > > I'm after? > > A final, random question: Mailman 3 is still in alpha, but is it > > stable given that it's almost been in alpha for 4 years? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2011-September/000164.html seems to be the latest update. IIRC, Barry's not on -users, but does post on -developers. (There was an update, but I can't quickly find it) I could be wrong on that, though/ -- "I try not to get drunk at lunchtime any earlier in the week than Thursday." -- Giles Coren ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
