Thanks John Doug
On Saturday, September 19, 2015, John Lewis johnflewis93@gmail.com wrote:
If a user sends the poster password in an email header and it matches the one set by list administrators, mailman will automatically accept the email regardless of what actions are configured for the list (announcement only lists may use this mostly).
There are no password reminders as this is s global password like the list admin and moderator password. It is set and shared. Changing it means old passwords won't work and everyone needs to be reinformed.
For a more depth explanation, see the section on password management in the administrator interface.
John Lewis
On Saturday, 19 September 2015, Doug Weller <dougwellerarbcom@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dougwellerarbcom@gmail.com');> wrote:
Could I please have a layman' explanation of "poster password " and it's use and the way the password reminder works. Thanks Doug
On Friday, September 18, 2015, Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Happy to announce that the mailman migration is over. We are now on version 2.1.18 and running on a jessie machine, fermium.
Here is a summary of changes that are relevant to users and list admins:
Administrators / Moderators
- Emails are validated more accurately. Spam prevention.
- Poster password added. Allows users who may meet moderation
standards to automatically have their emails accepted.
- Cookies now set the secure flag when over HTTPS (default).
- Sessions can be invalidated through logouts on administrator and
moderation interfaces.
Users
- DMARC improvements solve issues users have with Yahoo and Outlook
regarding mail. This isn't done yet but unblocked with the new version.
- Password reminder link is now on the roster page (private
archives).
- Emails can be automatically accepted to private lists if a poster
password is used provided by list administrators.
If you want more details see -> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110140#1582771
All tickets are linked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105756
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org wrote:
There will be another scheduled maintenance window for this upgrade at:
Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:00:00 PM UTC (Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7:00:00 AM PDT)
for 3 hour mails to lists will not be delivered and i will follow-up once this is over.
Thank you,
-- Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org Operations Engineer
-- John Lewis