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I wasn't sure where to post this, as there's no "Other" forum and this is not strictly Scalix related.

Visiting the Scalix forums used to log me out after a while, but since this year it sometimes doesn't want to log me in any more. bugzilla.scalix.com wants me to log in whenever I visit a page, or move from page to page in it.

I am using Firefox 2.0.0.1. To me this feels like a cookie issue, so I checked my settings.

Under Privacy I have "Accept cookies from all sites" checked, with no excptions in the list, and cookies are kept until they expire. "Always clear my private data when I close Firefox" is unchecked.

Doing a search in the cookies reveal that there are login cookies for bugzilla.scalix.com (one called Bugzilla_login and one called Bugzilla_logincookie). On the forum side there are phpbb2mysql_t, phpbb2mysql_data, phpbb2mysql_sid, __utmc, __utma and __utmz. They are all set to "Valid until the end of the session" or with expiry dates in the future.

Can anyone please shed some light on this for me?

Thanks a lot

Same thing happening here. I have to login every time I visit the forums, it used to keep me logged in before.

To eliminate client behaviour, I have tried with IE7 now as well, with the same results.

If I click on the "Log in" link at the top, it gives me a chance to enter my username and password, then frequently gives me a page back where I am not logged in, even though the URL does have a session ID. Usually it takes 5-10 attempts before the heading changes to "Log out [ Valerion ] ". When I click on a subforum, it frequently registers me as logged out again.

Unfortunately, it was a deliberate configuration change on my part.

On Christmas Day ( yes we monitor the forums during holidays as well ) we were hit heavily with a spam attack on these boards that took a lot of time to clean up.

In the short term, I had to make new user registrations approvable by only admins and existing users have to log in more frequently.

Please bear with us. I will be adding some mods to the forums to (hopefully) cut down on the bot registration/spam that we see. Our problem was that I didn't want to take the forums down for maintenance just as we released Scalix 11.

Thanks for your patience.

Cheers

DAve

Ahhh ... looks like the everything on the forum is back to normal again, I can now stay logged in.

Thanks a lot, Dave