Sorry, register_globals is off. Thanks. Matt Ruzicka - Senior Systems Administrator Front Range Internet, Inc. matt@xxxxxxxx - (970) 212-0728 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >> 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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