I can understand the protocol for gmail, especially the managed google work space, to cycle out for heightened security.
But is there a way (shouldn’t there be) to prevent this cycling out while one is actually in gmail … writing an email and the like.
It’s one of the the silliest concepts I have seen by The Google…
to log you out right in the middle of your activity.
#thinkdifferent
Haven’t experienced it actually logging me out in the middle of writing an email. That seems truly insane and one would think that they could make their fabulous software know when they were interrupting its usage. I do use Mailplane and I don’t know if that might affect it, but I would doubt it.
That seems very wrong. Have you experienced this regularly? I don’t use Gmail via the Web (Mimestream is fabulous), but I use Google Docs all day every day, and I’ve never been logged out forcibly. I’d almost wonder if there isn’t something else going on, either at a connectivity level or something that’s triggering a security system.
Getting logged out of Gmail while actively typing in a session on a web browser has happened to me often enough that I’m not shocked when it happens, but not so often that it has been more than a minor annoyance worth digging into. Maybe once every six weeks or so.
I do tend to be logged into multiple Google accounts simultaneously in a single browser, so I’ve wondered if that is part of the issue. For example, I may have Gmail tabs open from several accounts in the same browser at the same time.
If it is happening frequently to you, I would try clearing your browser cache, assuming that you are using a web browser to access Gmail.
FWIW, as someone with a few different Google accounts, I’ve started using Safari profiles for this. Each profile logs in to only one Google account (and the profile name is the name of the Google account), and my primary profile logs in to none. It would mean keeping multiple windows open rather than having them in a single tab in one window, though.
Gmail is no longer my primary email address, though, so I’m not doing this often, and I can’t say that I get reauthentication prompts as I work. That may have been the last straw for me if I still was using a gmail address as my primary email account.
hmmm, connectivity, I wonder if there is an issue of wifi connecting to different source points?
this can happen when moving to different buildings for sure, perhaps the connection is sensing a stronger connection point in the array of devices (wifi mounts) nearby and the google is registering this as a disconnection prompting the security sequence.
I am not sure if the security configuration actually has a timing factor
… like what ever you’re doing it’s one o’clock now and we’re booting you off regardless
LOL
The timing factor that I’m imagining would be more of a “the system has noticed that traffic from you is coming faster at times and slower at times, which could be an indication of it being rerouted by a man-in-the-middle attack so we’re going to log you out.” That would also play into the connection swapping between access points or the like, too.