https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43228
--- Comment #6 from Legoktm <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > Per above, suggesting WONTFIX. I completely disagree. If you look at the WIP patch I submitted, there is a variable called $wgAbuseFilterCheckEmails which is default set to false. Unless that is enabled, emails aren't filtered. Marco's comments are completely valid, however that should affect whether the change is enabled on Wikimedia wikis. (Looking at it now, there are probably enough legal and privacy hurdles that this may never happen.) This feature may be useful for other non-WMF wikis, and is a reason to continue development. (In reply to comment #2) > The contents of the email must not be avalaible for anybody because that will > be egregiously unlawful in several jurisdictions. If a user receives an > abusive > email and feels concerned enough about its content, the user should contact > the > Police or fill a lawsuit against the sender. Right. In my patch I added another configuration variable, $wgAbuseFilterCheckEmailText, which would enable the filter to check against the subject line and email body. Even without the text information, it would still be able to set up an effective filter using throttles. Something like "user_blocked & email_to rlike "userwhokeepsgettingabusiveLTAemails"" with a lower throttle than the MediaWiki default would be useful in my eyes. > > Please note that CheckUser results indeed do tell us that User:X has sent an > email, but we can't know to which user sent it (the recipient name is > encrypted > with a hash), nor the contents of such email. > > Regards. One way around this (potentially) would be rather than revealing the recipients name, you could simply add a variable with the recipient's username hashed. This would still allow you to do what I mentioned above since you can calculate the hash beforehand. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
