[horde] error messages don't show the real values

Dirk Dettmering dirk.dettmering at med.uni-marburg.de
Mon Jul 9 15:38:00 UTC 2012


Jan Schneider wrote:
>> I just implemented some restrictions after our webmail system has been
>> abused. After adjusting max_timelimit, max_recipient,
>> login_block_count and login_block_time and testing these setting I
>> noticed that none of the error messages are using the real values. The
>> error messages corresponding to the first two parameters talk about 1
>> recipient per 24h or per mail (see attached screenshots: Empfänger is
>> german for recipient) and the error message for a locked account just
>> states "your account has been locked" which really irritates our users
>> because many of them fear that they are locked out forever.
>> It would be really great if all error messages could use the actual
>> values and e.g. the login block error could be something like "your
>> account has been blocked for X minutes due to too many wrong login
>> attempts".
>
> Patch? Or at least create a request ticket?

I'm sorry but sadly I lack the ability to make the appropriate changes.

My bug report for the max_timelimit and max_recipient:
http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11253
My request for enhancement for login_block_count and login_block_time:
http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11254

Thanks a lot in advance

Dirk Dettmering

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