On 12/1/2011 7:24 AM, Gary Hawkins wrote:
How incredibly lame of you Python people to repeatedly be sending passwords
around in plain text. ...

Wow! that was obnoxious -- but your point is well taken.

This post:

http://blog.tigertech.net/posts/mailman-monthly-password-reminders-not-recommended/

indicates that it's easy to turn off the password reminder, so we probably should.

Also, it looks like key problem was corrected in MailMan some time in 2007:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2007/01/13/Passwords+done+right

 -- so maybe an update to MailMan is in order as well.

Mike, are you administering it? Would you like a hand?

-Chris




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