Re: Corrupted Settings

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mark T. Dame <mdame@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have some users whose settings get corrupted periodically.  It appears to
> happen most (maybe exclusively) on shared computers.  One user will login to
> SquirrelMail, read and reply to their e-mail, close the browser (possibly
> without logging out of SquirrelMail), then the next user comes along, logs
> into SquirrelMail and gets the settings from the previous person.

Browser is not closed.  Check the mailing list archives for this issue.

> Here are the details:
>
> Server side:
> SquirrelMail 1.4.19 running on Fedora Core 2
> PHP 4.3.4
> Apache 1.3.29
>
> Client side:
> Windows XP
> IE 7 (and maybe 8)
>
> The users aren't getting any errors or warnings.  They notice the problem
> when things like their name or reply to address are set to someone else's
> settings.
>
> Unfortunately, telling user's that they must logout is not viable solution.
>  They won't do it consistently.

Tell users they must log out (or close the browser).

> Additionally, this problem seems to have
> started when we upgrade from 1.4.4 to 1.4.19.  I can't be positive of that,
> but we never received complaints about it until after the upgrade.

It's been an "issue" since before that.  The only real solution is
non-cookie based sessions.


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