For all you squirrelmail buffs.

John Seth johnseth at phoenixwing.com
Thu Oct 10 10:33:33 EDT 2002


Sounds more like either a PHP issue, or a browser issue.  I can't say I
ever had that problem on any of the systems I've run SM with (Slackware
7-8.1, RedHat 7.1-7.3 & 8).  I'm running SM 1.28 on a Slackware 8.1, box
with Apache 1.3.27, and PHP 4.2.3, no problems so far.

I have checked the ChangeLog for SM recently so I'm not sure if 1.2.8
requires that php have "register_globals" set to on, though I'm fairly
certian previous versions did.  You can set it in Apache's config to SM's
directory, or enable it for the whole server in your php.ini file.

If that's not the case, then I'd check into whether SM's using Cookies for
some means of user verification.  I'm not certain, since it works for me,
I haven't had much of a reason to hack it or look too in depth.  I know
that M$ Internet Explorer is quite error prone, especially if the browser
hasn't been upgraded to 5.5sp2 or higher.

Myself, I use IE 6.0sp1, Netscape 6.2.3 & 7, Opera 6, and Mozilla 1.0 with
no problems when interacting with SquirrelMail on my site.  *shrug*

--
Tony Evans

Webmaster/DNS Administrator
Netsync Internet Services, Corp.
http://www.netsync.net/




On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Justin Bennett wrote:

> I know Bob meyers had some experience with squirrelmail, maybe some
> others too. I'm running squirrelmail 1.28 on apache 2.0 (rehdat 8) and
> squirrelmail 1.27 on 1.3.23 on redhat 7.3. I have this problem
> occasionally on both (just noticed it on 1.28 today) but our employees
> in europe running 1.27 have complained about this. Sometimes when you
> first login and click on a new message you'll get an error that "You need
> to be logged on to access this page" then it gives you a link and you can
> relogon and all is well. I've only see this once, but keep hearing about
> it from europe. Any ideas? They're running ie 5.5 or 5.0 and I've only
> seen this on IE 5.5 on my w2k box. Maybe the browser is caching the page
> or something? Maybe some PHP setting I can set to get rid of this?
>
> Ideas are apreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
>
>
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> -------------------------------------------
> Justin Bennett
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> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade Inc.
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