In January we upgraded our squirrelmail installation to a new server running Squirrelmail 1.4.8, SLES 9, PHP 5.1.6 and apache 2.2.3 we compiled both apache and php on our own, and didn't use the RPM's supplied by SuSE. The system is used by approximately 3000 users at Luther College. The problem involves 2 users. User 1 will suddenly realize that when they send mail their mail is being sent with the name and email address of User 2 on the from line of the message. When I look at /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/squirrelmail-1.4.8/data/prefs/user1.pref I find that the original contents of the user 1's preference file is gone and replaced with contents that match those of user 2. When we question the user that reports the problem, they always know the second user, and can think of some scenario where the two of them might have been logged in from the same computer at the same time. So I think the problem is that when 2 squirrel mail sessions start from 2 different users using the same browser on the same PC, the 2 sessions get mixed up. What I don't understand is why we're seeing so many more cases like this now that we're running 1.4.8, than we have with any of the other versions of squirrelmail that we've run over the past 6 years or so that we've been using squirrelmail. I've seen this problem periodically before the upgrade (maybe I'd hear about and fix 1 or 2 cases a year.) Since the upgrade, I'm fixing at least 1 case a week. Anyone have any suggestions on a solution to this problem or a way to make it happen less frequently? We of course tell each student that reports this problem that it happens when 2 users log into squirrelmail from the same compter at the same time, and tell them to make sure that the first user logs off before a second user logs on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- 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
