On 2017-11-25 11:53, Éric Gillet wrote:
> This is non-ideal, but you were warned during your account creation that this
> password is to be considered non-secure :
>
>> You may enter a privacy password below. This provides only mild security,
>> but should prevent others from messing with your subscription. Do not use a
>> valuable password as it will occasionally be emailed back to you in
>> cleartext.
Thanks Éric, I admit that "I was warned" but I still find it scandalous
in this day and age... It seems this shortcoming in mailman was fixed in
V3, released in 2014. I read here that V3 no longer stores
unencrypted/decryptable passwords:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2014-July/077411.html
Are we still running V2.1?
//colin
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