On 02/10/2010 08:49 PM, Marco Schuster wrote:
Hi all,
I just got this email from bugzilla. Apparently Google Apps has screwed up something again so the message itself doesnt annoy me, but why are the users' passwords still sent in CLEARTEXT in these days?? Can someone (tm) of the mailman admins or tech guys please fix this up?
Thanks, Marco
The point of the password is so you can prove to the web interface that you own the email address; so the fact that it is in your email box doesn't matter much. (If your email gets hacked this is the last thing you're likely to be worried about after all.) As it says on sign up "do not use a valuable password".
As far as I'm aware there's no flag to modify this behaviour, so any local fixes would have to be hacks to mail-man. As I'm sure you can't be the only one who wants this fixed, I recommend you try and contact the mail-man folk directly.
Conrad