Thanks John<div>Doug<br><br>On Saturday, September 19, 2015, John Lewis &lt;<a href="mailto:johnflewis93@gmail.com">johnflewis93@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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).<div><br></div><div>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&#39;t work and everyone needs to be reinformed.</div><div><br></div><div>For a more depth explanation, see the section on password management in the administrator interface.</div><div><br></div><div>John Lewis</div><div><br>On Saturday, 19 September 2015, Doug Weller &lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;dougwellerarbcom@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">dougwellerarbcom@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Could I please have a layman&#39; explanation of &quot;poster password &quot; and it&#39;s use and the way the password reminder works.<div>Thanks </div><div>Doug<br><br>On Friday, September 18, 2015, Daniel Zahn &lt;<a>dzahn@wikimedia.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Happy to announce that the mailman migration is over. We are now on version 2.1.18 and running on a jessie machine, fermium.<br><br>Here is a summary of changes that are relevant to users and list admins:<br></div><br>Administrators / Moderators<span>

<ul><span><li>Emails are validated more accurately. Spam prevention.</li></span><li>Poster password added. Allows users who may meet moderation standards to automatically have their emails accepted.</li><li>Cookies now set the secure flag when over HTTPS (default).</li><span><li>Sessions can be invalidated through logouts on administrator and moderation interfaces.</li></span></ul>

<p>Users</p>

<ul><li>DMARC improvements solve issues users have with Yahoo and 
Outlook regarding mail. This isn&#39;t done yet but unblocked with the new 
version.<br></li><span><li>Password reminder link is now on the roster page (private archives).</li></span><li>Emails can be automatically accepted to private lists if a poster password is used provided by list administrators.</li></ul><p>If you want more details see -&gt; <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110140#1582771" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110140#1582771</a></p><p>All tickets are linked on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105756" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105756</a><br></p></span></div><div><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Zahn <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>dzahn@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>There will be another scheduled maintenance window for this upgrade at:<br><br></div>Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:00:00 PM UTC<br>(Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7:00:00 AM PDT)<br><br></div>for 3 hour mails to lists will not be delivered and i will follow-up <br></div>once this is over.<br><br></div>Thank you,</div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Daniel Zahn &lt;<a>dzahn@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;<br>Operations Engineer</div>
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