-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Iain, On Thursday, February 02, 2006, Iain wrote: > Hi,
> I am experiencing a strange bug with squirrelmail. The symptoms are as > follows: > Sometimes when a user sends an email the from address changes to another > user's email address who is logged in at the same time. > e.g. user A has email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > user B has email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > User A is composing an email. When he hits send, the from address gets > set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There could be a few causes of this. Are the users on the same computer? If so... that is a big issue... and they shouldn't both be logging in at the same time. Are they behind a proxy server? Another possibility is a PHP bug that has come up from time to time where the session id becomes the string 'deleted' instead of an empty string. If multiple users hit the same 'deleted' session ID, then they will be accessing the same session files. > 3 x Redhat EL 4 webmail front ends. (PHP 4.3.9, Squirrelmail 1.4.5) > 1 x Solaris 8 Backend running: > - Cyrus > - Postgres 8.0.3 (for address book, userprefs, etc) > - NFS > The 3 webmail front ends are load balanced behind an Alteon load > balancer with IP persistency. Sessions are stored on the NFS mount. While I don't believe it's likely to happen too often, there is a possibility that the session id generated by web server 1 has the same name as a session id generated on web server 2, this would cause the sessions to pollute each other as they're accessed from the same NFS share. Have you considered shifting the session files to storing locally to each web server? You said the balancer keeps IP persistency so it shouldn't cause any harm. What about a custom session handler? Somebody posted on to the devel list recently that could be tweaked for postgres with some of the suggested fixes. - -- Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFD4u/RK4PoFPj9H3MRAoY1AKDfmpjYzIFTDFk9VsiQXPm5ttMPCQCfb8j0 eB8Hhw+ydaJJ9xPWEQ2xwtk= =MV2x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
