On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:25:50 +0100 Henk van Lingen wrote:
Since then I have some users who have problems with their sessions. They are logout out every now and them, and some sent mails have another user address in the From header. It looks like squirrel is mixing up sessions? Those users have used fresh browser sesions.
I ran into something similar to this a while back when I tried to set up Firefox in /etc/skel before setting up the users on a Fedora 5/LTSP system.
Users who were simultaneously using Squirrelmail on the mailserver were getting into each others mailboxes. Jane was suddenly reading John's mail, and so on.
I don't know if it's a Squirrlemail issue or a Firefox issue. My theory is that the apparently random string that you get in ~/.mozilla/firefox named *.default has something to do with it, but I don't really know.
My solution was simply to not set up Firefox in /etc/skel and just create a new setup for each user after I created them. It took a bit longer than it would have otherwise but it worked and the Squirrelmail mailboxes didn't get confused.