On 9/25/06, Scott Mayo <sgmayo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Lesniewski wrote: > > Please make sure to post replies on-list, thanks. > > > > On 8/24/06, Scott Mayo <sgmayo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>Paul Lesniewski wrote: > >> > >>>On 8/23/06, Scott Mayo <sgmayo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Fredrik Jervfors wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>>I have Squirrelmail 1.4.5 and Dovecot 1.0 setup. My principal says that > >>>>>>sometimes he goes to send a message after having squirrelmail up for a > >>>>>>while and it tells him that he needs to log back in. Is there a setting > >>>>>>in squirrelmail somewhere that does this? I have not been able to find > >>>>>>one yet. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>FAQ: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/AutoLogout > >>>> > >>>>Well, neither of the solutions in the FAQ seemed to be my problem. I > >>>>had not installed the plugin and I set the left_refresh=600 in my > >>>>default_pref. I did read something somewhere else yesterday about too > >>>>many people logging in and it only accepting so many, but I did not > >>>>think about that being my problem since we are only about 80 staff. > >>>>Maybe it is though, since my Squirrellmail stayed up all night, then I > >>>>got that error this morning after everyone got here. > >>> > >>> > >>>Show php session timeout settings. Make sure you restarted your web > >>>server after changing those values. Make sure you know where any > >>>override php settings are located, if any. If your left refresh was > >>>working all night long, it is not possible that it timed out, so I > >>>suspect you are leaving out part of the story. > >> > >>I did not do anything with the PHP sessions since the FAQ said that > >>setting the refresh to less would take care of the problem. > >> > >>The setting in my php.ini is: session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 > >> > >>Should I go ahead and make those changes to php since the refresh rate > >>is less than the maxlifetime in my php? > > > > > > Not necessarily. Changing that value may help avoid the problem, but > > the left_refresh should definitely do the trick -- there is no reason > > it wouldn't unless your computer loses its net connection when it > > tries to refresh. > > Well, this is still happening. I left my mail up at home over night and > had no problems, so I assume that it is a loss of connections over the > network or something. I have not really noticed any connection losses, > so maybe they are just split seconds, and happen to be when PHP is doing > its thing. A common occurance with consumer-grade ADSL-like connectionsn in my experience. > I just want to make sure that I understand what I read. I should be > able to up the session.gc_maxlifetime to something like 43200 (12 > hours), and that would probably take care of the problem even if I have > some connection losses in my network somewhere? Thanks for any info. Sure, might help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users