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[Ruslan Kabalin <731990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>what's to prevent me from changing my session and editing the post hours after it has been sent out via email
It will not let you to start editing if more than 30 minutes has passed from the time when you opened edit window. But, I agree, email sending has not been considered.

I had another thought. Say if editing time will be recorded in
interaction_forum_edit when edit has been started and incomplete record
will be cleared by cron if the submission has not been made within 30
mins. When submission is made, 'mtimeend' will be recorded in the same
table. Email will not be send out if incomplete record in
interaction_forum_edit will be indicating that editing is in progress.
Also this will give us a possibility to display editing history for
ordinary users.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731990

Title:
  Forum post editing timeout issue

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  We have postdelay forum config parameter that defines for how long it
  is allowed to edit the post after it has been submitted. Say it is set
  to 30 mins. When user decides to edit the post just before timeout,
  s/he will be allowed to do so, but submission might not be possible
  due to the timeout (Access denied error).

  What I suggest is to make possible to submit the post even if time is
  out (but editing was initiated before timeout).