Subject: Bug#298753: Debian mailman bug 298753: non-ascii passwords cause montly password reminders to be shunted

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:03:37 +0200

severity 298753 minor
retitle non-ascii passwords in montly password reminders html-encoded
thanks

Hello Eric,

Lionel wrote:
> I tried this again with mailman 2.1.6-1 and the password reminder does
> get out, "but" the password is HTML-escaped (with &#XXXX; "characters").
> Copy-pasting the HTML-ized version of the password works, though. So
> while not nice, it is not catastrophic.
> 
> Could you please confirm it behaves like that with the new version for you, too?

Any news on this?

In the meanwhile, I'm downgrading this to a minor bug that the password
is displayed wrong.

Thijs