Dear Robert I am not an administrator of this list, neither an IT guy, just passing you the information I have got. As far as I understand, the Quantum Espresso Users Forum is using version 2.1.15 of GNU Mailing List Manager and the current version is 3.2.0, please have a look at http://www.list.org/. There is a long discussion from November 2011 forum among the users about the issue of plain text passwords sent by email. I suggest you to have a look. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-November/thread.html The discussion starts with an email titled "How to turn off plain text passwords?" and goes on at least 15 email exchanges. Apparently, it is a known issue among the developers and it is how Mailman version 2 is set up. As far as I understand, passwords are even stored with an encryption which is slightly outdated and can be "figured out" by some effort with the current technology. Long story short Version 2 of Mailman software is not the most secure thing on earth. 1- The ultimate way of solving this problem for everybody is installing Version 3.X. 2- Partial solution for you (if you do not trust your email provider) switch off receiving monthly emails. 3- Another partial solution for you is to use a "dummy" password that you do not use elsewhere. 4- The ultimate solution for you is to unsubscribe from the list.
Regards On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 00:56, Robert Molt <[email protected]> wrote: > Sirs and Madames: > > There is a significant security lapse for this list-serv. The mailing list > monthly reminder writes the user's password out, in the email. This is *not > *acceptable security practice in the present day; it is not OK to ever > have an email list out a user's password for any reason. It is important to > not allow one compromised account (say, email) lead to further compromises. > > I please ask that this be remedied. > > -- > Dr. Robert Molt [email protected] > IUPUI > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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