[aur-general] [arch-general] lists.archlinux.org mailing list memberships reminder

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Wed Oct 1 12:22:37 UTC 2014


* Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde at gmail.com> [2014-10-01 13:08:44 +0100]:
> On 01/10/14, Florian Pritz wrote:
> > On 01.10.2014 09:09, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > > * Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com> [2014-10-01 08:51:35 +0200]:
> > >> This is news to me. I never got this kind of stuff from this mailing list.
> > > 
> > > This is a standard mailman message - maybe they changed the setting
> > > lately?
> > 
> > I moved mailman to a new server and it looks like the old one never ran
> > mailman cronjobs (the new one does). That said, yes it is a standard
> > message and it defaults to being enabled, but since nobody complained
> > before we've disabled it again for our lists.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I noticed the message contain the password in plain text. Is this
> possible to be removed?

I think that's the default mailman behaviour and can't be changed.

To quote the subscription page:

    *Do not use a valuable password* as it will occasionally be
    emailed back to you in cleartext.

Just use some random-generated password. You'll easily be able to
request it back if needed. ;)

Florian

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