I've forwarded this to the Checkuser-L private mailing list. I don't personally have an opinion on this, but other checkusers and stewards may be using some element of the functionality.
Certainly, *knowing* if someone is sending out emails via the interface can be very useful information for us, even if we don't know to whom they have been sent. Risker/Anne On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 07:22, Máté Szabó <[email protected]> wrote: > [x-posting from mediawiki-l] > > To Whom It May Concern: > > Since 2012, the CheckUser extension has contained functionality to > optionally store the encrypted recipients for emails that were sent > via Special:EmailUser, if the operator set $wgCUPublicKey to a valid > RSA public key. The encryption mechanism used by this logic is > outdated and needs an update.[1] > > However, it's unclear if anybody is using this feature. It is not > enabled in WMF production, and was implemented without a corresponding > BZ reference. There is also no functionality in CheckUser that allows > access to the stored data. > > If you are actively using this functionality and would like it to be > retained, please leave a comment on the deprecation task T384460.[2] > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384398 > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384460 > > Yours faithfully, > Máté Szabó (he/him/his) > Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety Product > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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