[Koha-devel] Why we do not push the ACCTDETAILS email via message queue?

[Christopher Nighswonger]

Considering that email is plaintext (AKA "postcard") mail, I'm surprised we
would send a user's password in an email in any case.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:14 AM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
wrote:

> Considering that the borrower’s password is typically in the ACCTDETAILS
> email, I think using the message_queue for ACCTDETAILS would be a bad idea
> and would probably violate the GDPR in Europe.
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> Just imagine looking through your database and seeing all those plain text
> passwords, especially for people who re-use the same password for
> everything. I think it would be a security and privacy nightmare.
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> *From:* koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:
> koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org] *On Behalf Of *Sophie
> Meynieux
> *Sent:* Friday, 15 June 2018 9:33 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Why we do not push the ACCTDETAILS email via
> message queue?
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> Maybe because for this message you're expecting it is sent immediately
> while message_queue table could be processed more occasionally ?
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> Le 15/06/2018 à 12:40, Indranil Das Gupta a écrit :
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> Hi all,
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> I was wondering why we do not push the ACCTDETAILS email via  the message
> queue.
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> Is it just one of those cases of "as things have always been done" OR
> there is a reason that I'm missing out?
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> cheers
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> indranil.
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