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 href="mailto:dzahn@wikimedia.org">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 href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;dzahn@wikimedia.org&#39;);" target="_blank">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 href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;dzahn@wikimedia.org&#39;);" target="_blank">dzahn@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;<br>Operations Engineer</div>
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