Simon Bryan said: > Hi all, > A number of times when I have been logged into SM it has suddenly asked me > for my personal details again and all my other preferences have been > deleted, including a large number of filters!
1. Is it possible that you used a PC that had been logged into another SM account just before you, and that user did not log out? Or, that you didn't log out and you or someone else logged into another SM account just after you? This is a common source of corrupted or miswritten pref files. You can't have concurrent SM sessions on a single client box. 2. I have seen this happen a couple of times to my account (without the login issue described above). On two occasions, the contents of some of my SquirrelMail user prefs files were wiped out. The files in question are all in the data directory. These are the files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that those filenames still existed, but the contents had been somehow wiped out to be zero byte files. The last time it occurred a server admininstrator had killed all server connections to stop a spammer. I was logged into SquirrelMail at that time. He thinks that because SM couldn't properly access those files, or because they were in use, the contents got wiped out and became zero bytes. As I say, this happened twice to me, so I'd be interested if anyone can confirm the admin's theory. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
