[Trevor Johnson]

Mitch Marks writes:

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The interesting settings about sending password reminders to "-owner" addresses instead of unmodified member addresses seem very useful for *completely* umbrella lists, whose members are only other lists. But I didn't see a way to selectively mark members one way or the other. Any suggestions?

Not any really good ones, but here's a try:

If list "foobar" has both user and list members, you could make lists "foobar-lists" and "foobar-users", and make their addresses the only members on "foobar". User addresses then go on "foobar-users", and list members on "foobar-lists". "foobar" and "foobar-lists" are pure umbrella lists. All these three lists could be set up to have the same subject prefix.

(Or can this go under "enhancement requests"?)

Yes, I for one would like to take the "include additional members from <source>" stuff up for review post-1.0.

Anyone who has access to the Web (probably the great majority of subscribers) can have their password mailed via the Web form. I'd suggest just turning off the reminders.

This has the problem that anyone could "pretend" to be a list member and have the list's password mailed to the list.

If the password were included in the response to a "help" command, then there would be no need at all for the reminders.

I posted a patch for making the "password" mail command return the users password when given without any arguments.

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The way majordomo deals with this is that if the token appears anywhere in the subject, a new one doesn't get added.

... which happens to be exactly what Mailman does (even though I confess to having messed this up in rc2, see simple patch in <URL:http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-June/001464.html>).

Harald