Re: vlogin plugin for squirrelmail - few problems.

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> | > | >1. I have had cases where a user's .prefs file has been changed.
> | > | >   What I mean is that snubber-sm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx has ended up
> | > | >   having pdontthink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx as the e-mail address, for
> | > | >   example. How this happens has left me stumped. This is very
> | > | >   dangerous, because then, when snubber-sm@xxxxxxxxxx sends out
> | > | >   an e-mail, they appear as from pdontthink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so
> | > | >   the replies would go to pdontthink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > | >   Some of my clients are planning to crucify me for this sad
> | > | >   problem. I am lost as to how this can happen...
> | > | >   On another setup where I do not use the vlogin plugin, this
> | > | >   has never happened (never reported to me).
> | > |
> | > | Maybe nice if you don't use our personal email addresses for
> examples,
> | > | thanks.
> | >
> | > Sorry for that. I tested the validity of the addresses b4 and found
> they
> | > were invalid. Maybe I was wrong on my tests. Sorry.
> | >
> | > | This is probably the session-cross bug that has been known for ages.
> | >
> | > I'm not quite sure, since one client who complained lives over 200km
> | > away from the one who 'modified' their prefs.
> | >
> | >
> | > | Usually happens when one user uses same browser (on same machine) to
> | > | login to their account that another user had been using before that.
> | > | I can see no way (and have never heard of) this could happen as a
> | > | result of Vlogin.
> | >
> | > Thanks for exonerating vlogin from the equation. Now I need to think
> | > about this once again, and get an explanation....
> |
> | Maybe both of them use Internet Explorer and have invalid clock set on
> | their machines?
>
> How would that affect, given that they use different machines?

They both use same session called 'deleted'. IE sets session cookie value
to 'deleted', if time is not correct.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1462110&group_id=311&atid=100311

We have report about it, but in order to reproduce it and fix it, we might
need testbed with two or three machines.


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