> Some time in the semi-recent past we started to receive a few reports of > users sending attachments in an email message to Person A, then having an > empty copy of that attachment get connected to a separate message they are > trying to send to Person B. In other words: > > 1. Compose message to Person A > 2. Attach File1 to message for Person A > 3. Send message with attachment to Person A > 4. Do some stuff > 5. Compose message to Person B > 6. Notice that File1 is attached to message to Person B with 0 size and > usually an error saying File1 can not be stat'ed. > (7. Some people don't notice the error (or ignore it) and send anyway, in > which case the sent message has a zero size attachment with the file name) > > This is the error: > > filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for > /path/to/squirrelmail_attachments/ShCp9jtLfH6mAd9BPTTuMSVsWRsP9a19 in > /path/to/squirrelmail-1.4.8/src/compose.php on line 1225 > > The good news is that this appears to be more of an annoyance then a > problem because in our testing it appears the original attachment always > gets sent properly and at worst Person B gets the name of the attached > file. > > We have been able to reproduce the error with some amount of consistency > if we use a fully qualified address for the To: (for some reason I've been > unable to reproduce it with just a username that ends up getting the > domain appended to it by SM) and /only/ if I click the compose link while > the send function is still finishing or at the exact instance that the > inbox list returns. In other words Step 3-6 from above become: > > 3. Click send button > 4. Quickly click Compose link to start a new message > 5. Notice error message > > Initially we just told users to be patient, but we've had a few reports of > people saying it happens occasionally even if they let everything fulling > finish loading. We have been unable to reproduce this though. > >>From what I can gather it seems that the attachment name and location on > the file system sets saved to the session cookie or something and doesn't > get cleared until the send is fully completed, which makes good sense to > me. We do have users using a wide variety of OS's, browsers and maybe > most importantly Internet connections. > > I'm sure something changed since this started, but it is hard to say what > because over this time we have upgraded Apache, PHP and Squirrelmail. We > are currently using the following software: > > FreeBSD 4.11 > Apache 2.2.3 > PHP 5.1.5 > SquirrelMail 1.4.8 > > Out plugins are: > > $plugins[0] = 'frii_mods'; > $plugins[1] = 'squirrelspell'; > $plugins[2] = 'auto_prune_sent'; > $plugins[3] = 'address_add'; > $plugins[4] = 'delete_move_next'; > > The frii_mods one is a home brew that just adds @frii.com to the end of > the authenticating username if a domain is not supplied. The rest are > vanilla. > > As I mentioned this is more of an annoyance than a real problem, but I > was wondering if anyone else had seen anything similar and had any > suggestions on how to mitigate it. We're considering adding a custom > warning message to the compose screen telling users to be patient and not > click anything until the inbox refreshes, but we'd like to avoid > modifying the SM source to add a message like that if we don't need to. > > Thanks for you time. Any feedback would be appreciated. Your PHP register_globals setting? -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
