Squirrelmail and web browser errors

[Anonymous]

Server 10.3.8, squirrelmail, cyrus, postfix, timsieved, Avelsieve etc. as discussed and recommended here. Have goggled for answers to the problem below, but did not find anything.

If anyone else has experienced this problem, and/or has other suggestions I can try, I would appreciate any help.

When using MSIE and Squirrelmail every time a message is sent,
an error dialog pops up:

Security Error: Data Decryption Error

Same with Netscape gives

The connection to [myserver FQDN]:16080 has terminated unexpectedly. Some data may have been transferred.

Safari does not show anything.

For all three browsers, the Compose page stays on, it is never exited. The mail is delivered but it is confusing for the users, and they don’t trust it. IMAP works like a charm, BTW.

If I turn off Web Performance Cache in Apache the same thing happens, only at port 80 in Netscape.

There are no firewalls involved on the server, on the clients or between them.

What to to, where to start?

TIA,

Peter

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Peter Jonsson
Engineering geology
Lund university, Lund, Sweden

[Anonymous]

If I check apache’s errorlog with tail -f, I can see that every time the
error pops up in the browser (==a mail is sent), this message appears there:

[time] [error] [client IP#] Invalid method in request \\x80g\\x01\\x03

The net suggests setting Keepalive off in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, did so and apachectl restart, to no avail.

-peter

[Anonymous]

Solved.

For some reason, Squirrelmail needs SSL configured in apache.

Followed instructions in The great big Panther SSL article on this site.

After enabling the https-server (and disabling the http only server at port 80, as they cannot co-exist on the same IP number) everything works OK.

Sigh.

-Peter

[Cory]

Here’s a quick fix directly from Apple:

Users can’t send email within SquirrelMail – Article ID: 107982

Worked perfectly for me. Also fixes SquirrelMail/WebMail Compose window refresh issue…when you click send after following these directions, the web browser window will refresh, not flash and stay open to the email you just composed and sent.

Cory

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