No your not missing something.
Would an AutoSave to Drafts stop the session timing out? Is there an
AutoSave feature for the compose window?
I recall getting caught out by this when I spent a long time composing
an email but I'm almost 100% certain it was while I was still using
SquirrelMail.
Rob.
Eric Stadtherr wrote:
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but it seems like the debate is
centering around the question of, "Is the timeout useful?" This seems
like a completely different question from "Why is my session expiring
even though I'm actively using RoundCube?" If the session management
were working correctly, the sessions wouldn't be timing out during
message composition and we wouldn't be discussing the first question
at all.
Am I missing something?
On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
it seems gmail does the rigth thing.
but, by far, the most common scenario is a writed lost mail because of
a session timeout, and this is happening to a lot of people (as you
can see), just because someone want to help an *eventual* and
*hipotetical* stupid user that maybe forgot to close the mail...
On 9/7/06, Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't see how this kind of attitude can possibly help Roundcube.
Squirrelmail has a timeout, as does Webmin, Cacti, and nearly every
other web interface that has a login.
I am amazed that this is even an issue.
I agree that the timeout needs to not threaten the usability of the
app, and that needs discussion, but saying "screw people if they
don't log out" is ridiculous for an application that is supposed to
offer a user-friendly interface for novices to use their email.
On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
> and how do you stop people from doing stupids things ?
> and where do you draw the line ?
>
> I mean, if I delete an important file or mail and clean the trash,
> how do you stop me ?
>
> shit happens, anyway...
>
> and doing something that affect to 99% of the people in a bad way,
> just because we want to "help" a stupid that forget to close the mail
> in a *public* computer, is nonsense IMO...
>
> btw, someone knows how does gmail or hotmail manage this ?
>
>
> On 9/7/06, Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Martin Marques wrote:
>>
>> > Closing the navegator SHOULD kill the session, AFAIK.
>> >
>> > So, the only reason I see is if you leave the web browser open.
>>
>> Why is that not a good enough reason for a timeout safety feature?
>> Someone can have it open but hidden and not realize it.
>>
>> Just because someone does something stupid or wrong doesn't mean
>> there shouldn't be a safety feature to help them.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Edwards
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Mark Edwards
