Configuring SquirrelMail

[Marauder69FR]

Hi

Can you tell me how to configure Squirrel Mail ?
I'm running wingate on W2K Pro.
Squirrelmail 1.4.8.

I can connect but I logout immediatly and get an error...
I cant find where i'am wrong.

Help :)

thanks

[adrien]

Hi

What error do you get?

We found some problems with Squirrelmail, which look to be design flaws in squirrelmail itself - a race condition between multiple concurrent requests which deletes the PHP session file, and therefore logs you out straight away whenever your browser makes more than 1 concurrent request.

Adrien

[Marauder69FR]

Here is what's happening
- I log in with correct user & pwd (seems to be ok in logfiles)
- The two frames appears correctly but :
- there's nothing in the left frame
- there's an error in the right frame :
ERROR
Unknown user or password incorrect.
Go to the login page
(user & pwd are wrong in logfiles...)

Any idea ?

Sorry for my poor english !

Best regards

Hi

What error do you get?

We found some problems with Squirrelmail, which look to be design flaws in squirrelmail itself - a race condition between multiple concurrent requests which deletes the PHP session file, and therefore logs you out straight away whenever your browser makes more than 1 concurrent request.

Adrien

[Marauder69FR]

So, can someone help me :) ?

Here is what's happening
- I log in with correct user & pwd (seems to be ok in logfiles)
- The two frames appears correctly but :
- there's nothing in the left frame
- there's an error in the right frame :
ERROR
Unknown user or password incorrect.
Go to the login page
(user & pwd are wrong in logfiles...)

Any idea ?

Sorry for my poor english !

Best regards

Hi

What error do you get?

We found some problems with Squirrelmail, which look to be design flaws in squirrelmail itself - a race condition between multiple concurrent requests which deletes the PHP session file, and therefore logs you out straight away whenever your browser makes more than 1 concurrent request.

Adrien

[adrien]

Hi

I did a lot of testing on this, and couldn't get Squirrelmail working on IIS either. I came to the conclusion it was a bug with Squirrelmail to do with race condition accessing session files.

There are a lot of forum posts around the net about this problem with Squirrelmail, it's not isolated to WinGate.

that doesn't leave many options.

1. Try and debug Squirrelmail PHP code. Not for the faint-hearted
2. try another free PHP-based IMAP client like Horde. That's not that easy to get going either.

You could also try running the Squirrelmail site on a different web server like IIS, but I haven't had any luck with this for ages. Also, the latest squirrelmail uses a "SEARCH ALL" command to select all the IDs of messages which WinGate 6.1.4 doesn't support. Previous versions don't do this. We've fixed this in the lab, and we're running the final tests on a release candidate which will have this fix in it as well.

Adrien

[Marauder69FR]

hi

Thank you for searching.

I'm actually using IIS .
I'll try to find the problem...
I'll tell you when ok !

best regards

Hi

I did a lot of testing on this, and couldn't get Squirrelmail working on IIS either. I came to the conclusion it was a bug with Squirrelmail to do with race condition accessing session files.

There are a lot of forum posts around the net about this problem with Squirrelmail, it's not isolated to WinGate.

that doesn't leave many options.

1. Try and debug Squirrelmail PHP code. Not for the faint-hearted
2. try another free PHP-based IMAP client like Horde. That's not that easy to get going either.

You could also try running the Squirrelmail site on a different web server like IIS, but I haven't had any luck with this for ages. Also, the latest squirrelmail uses a "SEARCH ALL" command to select all the IDs of messages which WinGate 6.1.4 doesn't support. Previous versions don't do this. We've fixed this in the lab, and we're running the final tests on a release candidate which will have this fix in it as well.

Adrien

[Marauder69FR]

Hello from France

Ok it works fine now !

In the src/redirect.php file, you have to replace :
header('Location: $redirect_url');
echo $redirect_url;

with:
echo '<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV=\'Refresh\' CONTENT=\'0; URL=webmail.php\'></head><body><a href=$redirect_url></a></body></html>';

Its now OK.

Is it possible to change password account from web client ?
I've try many plugins in squirrel mail but no one is running.

What command is used in wingate if supported ?

Thanks

Best regards

Damien

hi

Thank you for searching.

I'm actually using IIS .
I'll try to find the problem...
I'll tell you when ok !

best regards

Hi

I did a lot of testing on this, and couldn't get Squirrelmail working on IIS either. I came to the conclusion it was a bug with Squirrelmail to do with race condition accessing session files.

There are a lot of forum posts around the net about this problem with Squirrelmail, it's not isolated to WinGate.

that doesn't leave many options.

1. Try and debug Squirrelmail PHP code. Not for the faint-hearted
2. try another free PHP-based IMAP client like Horde. That's not that easy to get going either.

You could also try running the Squirrelmail site on a different web server like IIS, but I haven't had any luck with this for ages. Also, the latest squirrelmail uses a "SEARCH ALL" command to select all the IDs of messages which WinGate 6.1.4 doesn't support. Previous versions don't do this. We've fixed this in the lab, and we're running the final tests on a release candidate which will have this fix in it as well.

Adrien

[adrien]

Hi

the IMAP server doesn't have a function to change a user password - I'm not aware of any IMAP extension that allows that, I'll have to have a look.

Regards

Adrien