How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?

[jdaviescoates]

When I'm not working I tend to just close my laptop lid.

When I open it again I have to login to Roundcube again. This is a minor annoyance I want to avoid (Gmail doesn't do this).

On my first quick search it look like perhaps I need to edit or comment out $rcmail_config['session_lifetime'] = 10;

(e.g. https://billing.hostnox.gr/knowledgebase/55/------Session-invalid-or-expired--Roundcube-or-WHM.html?language=english )

But no such line is included in /app/data/customconfig.php

Any ideas?

I guess I could experiment with higher values than 10, but I basically don't ever want my session to end unless I manually log out.

Edit: looks like lots of people have this same issue, see also https://issuekiller.com/issues/roundcube/roundcubemail/15073963

Edit 2: this would seem to suggest it could be related to a MySQL issue:
https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/upgraded-to-11-30-0-now-roundcube-saying-session-expired-or-is-invalid.212331/post-875951

Edit 3: sounds like perhaps this PR would fix it https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/pull/7709

Edit 4: see also https://github.com/emtiu/roundcube-cookielifetime

Sigh. The state of open source webmail is so abysmal (I wonder if SnappyMail have fixed this annoying issue...)

[jdaviescoates]

@necrevistonnezr said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

@jdaviescoates Sorry, but Firefox is not what it used to be (or the web has changed) - I gave up on Firefox due to so many sites not loading, not being compatible or other issues. Might be their strict default privacy and container settings.

That's it! (I think)

I just clicked on the little shield on the far left of the address bar and toggled Enhanced Tracking Protection is ON for this site to Enhance Tracking Protection is OFF for this site

Then I closed down Firefox and all my other apps and restarted my machine. Open up Firefox and I'm still logged in. Hopefully it'll now stay that way!

Thanks!

[necrevistonnezr]

@jdaviescoates
According to this (https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/5961) I set

$rcmail_config['session lifetime'] = 10080;

in app/data/customconfig.php and I’m good for a month or so….

In context:
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[jdaviescoates]

@necrevistonnezr thanks, I'll give that a try in the first instance and see how I get on...

[necrevistonnezr]

@jdaviescoates said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

Sigh. The state of open source webmail is so abysmal (I wonder if SnappyMail have fixed this annoying issue...)

I agree. BTW Snappymail is a fork of Rainloop, not of Roundcube.

[jdaviescoates]

@necrevistonnezr said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

BTW Snappymail is a fork of Rainloop, not of Roundcube.

Oh yes, thanks for the reminder

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

@necrevistonnezr thanks, I'll give that a try in the first instance and see how I get on...

So, I added:

$rcmail_config['session lifetime‘] = 10080;

To app/data/customconfig.php

But it hasn't made any difference at all.

When I opened my laptop this morning I had to log back in to Roundcube, again.

Now I'm wondering if I restarted the app (or whether I would've needed to)

[fbartels]

@jdaviescoates since this is just php code a restart is not needed. What is needed however is you reloading the application in your browser to make the change reach your session.

@jdaviescoates said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

Gmail doesn't do this

Gmail is also not a php application. The reason sessions are handled better there is because their user sessions are based on openid connect, which means you get a refresh token with every login, that can (as long as the refresh token is valid) be used to get a session token without the need to perform another login.

[jdaviescoates]

@fbartels said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

What is needed however is you reloading the application in your browser to make the change reach your session.

Thanks. I guess it refreshed when I logged in again this morning. Let's see what happens tomorrow morning...

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

Let's see what happens tomorrow morning...

No change.

[necrevistonnezr]

@jdaviescoates is uBlock Origin blocking any cookies?

[jdaviescoates]

@necrevistonnezr hah, thanks!

That's quite likely it I guess.

Thought I'd turned uBlock off for all my own domain but I've moved this Roundcube install around a bit so I guess not!

Have turned it off now, hopefully that'll help...

[humptydumpty]

@necrevistonnezr said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

$rcmail_config['session lifetime‘] = 10080;

If I'm not mistaken, there's a typo in that code. After LIFETIME, the ending ' seems to be something else.

[jdaviescoates]

@humptydumpty yeah, when I pasted it in to the terminal it was clear (because of the code highlight) it wasn't correct so I replaced it with a ' - but thanks for pointing that out in case that was the issue

[necrevistonnezr]

@humptydumpty said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

@necrevistonnezr said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

$rcmail_config['session lifetime‘] = 10080;

If I'm not mistaken, there's a typo in that code. After LIFETIME, the ending ' seems to be something else.

You‘re right! I had fiddled with that post on the iPhone - quite a hassle. I corrected it now in the post above for future reference.

[timconsidine]

@jdaviescoates I realise this is not the direction of most replies/solutions, but if the programmatic approach does not deliver, on my Mac I have a utility which responds to triggers like laptop shut and fires off an action. I'm sure Windows has similar. Although the execution action may be a bit brutal (close app).

Just a thought.

[jdaviescoates]

@timconsidine thanks. I'm on Ubuntu, but probably stuff on here too I could try if my turning off uBlock doesn't help...

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in How to stop Roundcube session ending when I close my laptop lid?:

if my turning off uBlock doesn't help...

Well, turning off uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger hasn't helped at all.

I posted an issue on the Roundcube github too and they've just replied saying "this is not supported" and closed it

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/8504

So perhaps I'm trying to achieve something which isn't possible yet

Sigh. The state of open source webmail is so abysmal is makes me sad.

[necrevistonnezr]

@jdaviescoates Yeah, Alexander is not very helpful - though you gave him a location for the config that is non-standard and Cloudron specific (/app/data/ something).
Again, I use Roundcube everyday on my work computer and the session is kept alive even between reboots with the config described above...
Is it browser related (is it Firefox?) - maybe try a different one? A setting that deletes cookies from time to time?

[alexlixs]

@jdaviescoates Facing same issue.

[girish]

@alexlixs Can you confirm you are not a bot?