Solved 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]

I just played around with this again and this seems to be working for me:

$config['session lifetime'] = '10080';

It's unclear if $rcconfig or just $config should be used or if either would work, but the latter, i.e. just $config, appears to be working for me.

Also in previous attempts I was missing the 's around the 10080, and from the formatting of other settings in the customconfig.php I figured I'd try '10080' and then it worked.

[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?

[jdaviescoates]

I just played around with this again and this seems to be working for me:

$config['session lifetime'] = '10080';

It's unclear if $rcconfig or just $config should be used or if either would work, but the latter, i.e. just $config, appears to be working for me.

Also in previous attempts I was missing the 's around the 10080, and from the formatting of other settings in the customconfig.php I figured I'd try '10080' and then it worked.

[girish]

@jdaviescoates $config is the correct variable name.

[necrevistonnezr]

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

@jdaviescoates $config is the correct variable name.

Well, for some values, it seems that $rcmail_config is correct…

As said before, for me

$rcmail_config['session_lifetime'] = 10080;

works?!

[girish]

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

Well, for some values, it seems that $rcmail_config is correct…

I just looked up roundcube code and it seems $rcmail_config and $config are just aliases. https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/01b7dbd1a75bd712f4cac69f5aa421b049dd5d8b/program/include/rcmail_install.php#L159 says $rcmail_config is the deprecated name.