[imp] admins and horde

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von M Z Rahman <zrahman@partex.net>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
> 
> > 
> > No, you still don't know if a user just opened imp/accessed imap and 
> > immediately shutted down his computer or keeps working for hours.
> > What webstat tools do is defining a timeout. That is, if there is no
> activity
> > 
> > for lets say 20 minutes we assume the user stopped working.
> > 
> > The only case where you definitely know if a user is logged in would be
> if
> > all 
> > users use 'logout' but you're never sure.
> > 
> > Jan.
> 
> Alright, then why don't we have active session database in IMP 2.3 just like
> 
> 2.2 (active_sessions) with session timeout? Then we could trace how many
> users 
> are logged in and by adding the userid in the "sid" we could trace the user
> 
> also. If a user just shutdown the browser or computer while logged in, the 
> session-timeout will remove the seesion from the database. Session timeout
> may 
> be a made as a variable (changable) from configuration files.
> 
> Am I out of the track about this, or this can be given a thought? 'Cause it
> 
> sometimes becomes important to monitor who is currently using my webmail 
> system, :)

As we use PHP's session management there's no need to have a session table. And 
knowing how much users are logged in is not enough reason for implementing one.

Jan.

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