I'm using OS X 10.3 (OpenBSD) and SquirrelMail. I can do pretty much everything fine - the only problem is that when I try to send mail it gives me a "You must be logged in to view this page" error with an option to go to the login page. It DOES however at this point send the mail! Without any confirmation. The if I choose to go to the login page and log in again, then for the duration of that session I dont get the error. Any thoughts on this? I'm sure the pool or resources on this site is small... Hopefully I'll hit the right person!

Many thanks in advance

also - once you re-enter the login info, the url goes from mail.whatever.com/webmail/ to 192.168.x.x/webmail/

check your squirrelmail configuration
also is it on a nonroutable address?

k - so, check squirrelmail conf was the first thing I did :P I'm not sure about this "non-routable" address though. Please explain.

If you are on a non routable address (reserved for private use 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x or the class B one) you cannot have a FQDN (Fully qualified Domain name). You will have to set the host and DN in your /etc/hosts file (or Mac facsimile).

If your box is falling back from your.domain.tld to 192.168.x.x it is probably invalidating the session cookie.

In other words the original cookie is from your.domain.tld so when the browser receives something from 192.168 it doesn't send the session cookie from the original login cuz it's a different site as far as it is concered. Thus you need to log in again and it works with the 192.168.x.x cookie.

THat is my best guess with the details given

I followed you there and understand what's going on - just not clear on the solution. I tried adding into my hosts file a record pointing the internal address to the fqdn and then I tried the external address but to know avail. I then thought I'd probably need to restart the network service but "service network restart" returned a "command not found" error. What should I do?

Thanks for the help btw