Re: prefs file has incorrect email addr or multiple addrs

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Hi Robert,

> This problem has been plaguing me for the longest time and I still
> haven't found what the cause of the problem is.  Very infrequently, a
> user will complain about having somebody else's name/emailaddr in the
> FROM: field.  In the past, I've gone into the user's .pref file and have
> found that there are multiple people listed in their (email_address1,
> email_address2, etc).   Mind you, we do not allow editing either field
> as a regular user.
>
>
>
> Lately (I noticed this since upgrading from 1.4.9 to 1.4.10a) - that
> problem is no longer apparent.  Instead, an even more insidious problem.
> Apparently the new problem (though maybe its always done this and I
> haven't noticed until now) is that a user's email_address and name will
> be overwritten by someone else's information (so instead of there being
> an obvious problem (grep email_address2 *.pref), there is still only one
> email/name in the .pref file - but with someone else's data).
>
>
>
> The two users in question seem to _always_ have something in common -
> namely, they have used the same computer (e.g. a brother and sister - or
> a boyfriend and girlfriend).  This has been the case for pretty much
> every problem I've examined in detail so far.

The problem is that you can't open squirrel twice with different
creditials in the same browser, user information is cookie based. In your
case I would advice the 2 users to use different browser (IE and mozilla
or opera...), that will solve the problem ;)

Roland.


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Roland Fritz


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