To clarify, the feature being talked about is not enabled on WMF wikis, so
stewards aren't using it.

The knowing an email has been sent is a separate feature afaik.

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bawolff

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM Risker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 outdated and needs an update.[1]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
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