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