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  72             <p>I consulted with Scott and he suggested that I just use a cookie to store the userid and the base things off of that. Seems to work fairly well. Spent some time implementing this and things are looking goodl</p>
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 104 <ol><li><strike>Apparently the JavaScript regex for valid email addresses is not bulletproof yet. Email addresses of tthe form "Joe@Schmoe" pass through the regex OK.</strike></li>
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 144 <p>It may be possible to use Apache Session to record that somebody has logged into MAPS and provide a persistent state while they are logged in. Question is what happens if people do not log out? How is this to be handled.</p>
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 176 <p>Seems like this is homebase for mod_perl. Still not sure if this can help out with my problems of maintaining the state of what user is currently logged into my MAPS web pages.</p>
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 206             <p>Created MAPSDeliver to isolate the portion of the MAPS system that needs to be setgid (in order to deposit the mail). While maps itself could output the message and let sendmail deliver it we still need to deliver mesages when somebody registers (i.e. Whitelist) so we need to manipulate the users mail box directly, thus we need to be setgid. MAPSDeliver does this.</p>
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 238 <p>Well I got stats sorta working. Looking pretty good so far. It does seem to take a long time to compile the table for 30 days. Maybe I'll need to page this stuff too.</p>
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 272 <p>Need to change my JavaScript to use regex's for the purposes of better identifying a valid email address</p>
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 310 <p>I can send the message but #3 is not showing up as an attachement. Emailed the author of MIME-tools. Let's see what he says...<br />
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