We know that plain text emailed passwords are a bad idea. This will be fixed in MM 3. For MM 2.1, as a list member, you can turn off the periodic reminder for any list of which you are a member. As a list owner, you can turn off all periodic reminders from your lists. As a site admin, you can turn off all periodic reminders from the site. That leaves only the "request an immediate reminder and intercept the email" attack as a vulnerability. The list subscribe form says: You may enter a privacy password below. This provides only mild security, but should prevent others from messing with your subscription. *Do not use a valuable password* as it will occasionally be emailed back to you in cleartext. which implies that such a password, even if it is not an autogenerated one, is less likely to work in other contexts. ** Changed in: mailman Importance: Medium => High ** Changed in: mailman Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: mailman Milestone: None => mailman-2.2-3.0 -- privacy hole in password reminder https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/266821 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.