On Sat, April 28, 2007 7:45 pm, Adam Forsyth wrote: > 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. That is correct. This is a known issue. Do not allow two concurrent users on the same client, otherwise user prefs can be overwritten or corrupted. > 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. AFAIK, that is the only solution. You might search the archives in case someone has offered a method that auto-logouts the previous session when a new login begins on the same client. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
