Gary, What version of IE, and what OS? I might try it out here myself. Thanks, -- dkm At 11/20/2012 12:57 PM Tuesday, Gary Schrock wrote: >Ok, I've got a faculty member here that's been having some issues on >msu's web mail, although I suspect it's not really specific to that. >Pretty new computer, and the settings in IE are as far as I can tell >the default. > >Basically, she's getting bumped back to the login screen on >mail.msu.edu pretty frequently (as in, far too frequently to be an >inactivity timeout). It's not completely consistent on how it >happens, but often bringing up either the address book, or messing >with an attachment to a new email will cause it to happen. I was able >to get it to fail pretty consistently (but still not every time) if I >did a new message, put in a to address, go to the attachment section, >browse for a file and select it, then hit the update button on the >right. I'd say about 7 or 8 times out of 10 that would bounce me back >to the login screen (and it'll do it in my account too, not just >hers). > >Once we even got a message saying that the system didn't trust that we >were who we said we were. > >To me, obviously it seems like IE is losing some sort of session >variable, but like I said, it looks like IE is running with default >settings. And it's kinda of weird to me that it only seems to fail >about 7 or 8 times out of 10 when doing exactly the same thing. >Haven't had a chance to try it with another browser since it's the >only one she had installed, so I'll give that a try when I next get a >chance. > >Just kind of odd to me. > >Gary