For some unknown reason, the language selection is suddenly working, but attachments are still broken.

I’m setting up citadel on a raspberry pi.  I’m new to the Linux world and very new to RPi.  What I’m wondering is, since the RPi boots and runs off an sd card and I assume a mailbox database would be far too big for the sd card, how do i configure citadel to store the mailbox database to either and nfs or samba share?

thanks y’all  

I'm looking to make a few mailing lists for ~200 people across different email providers to be able to send mail to the entire list. Ideally, only admins and a select few others would actually access the citadel interface. Is this a viable use case for citadel, or am I misunderstanding everything?

Sat Mar 20 2021 16:29:09 EDT from ParrotHeadPhan Subject: Citadel mailbox storage

I’m setting up citadel on a raspberry pi.  I’m new to the Linux world and very new to RPi.  What I’m wondering is, since the RPi boots and runs off an sd card and I assume a mailbox database would be far too big for the sd card, how do i configure citadel to store the mailbox database to either and nfs or samba share?

thanks y’all  

Personally, I booted the pi off an SSD connected through USB and ditched the SD card entirely. I've had bad experiences in the past with SD card reliability, especially on the PI. This would give you the option of just storing it on the local drive, and that can be as large as you can find an SSD. That said, SD cards can come in capacities around 1 TB, so depending on the server size, that could store the database.

Is the ungoto function working correctly?  I never seem to go back to the last room.

A few messages up, this issue and the solution was discussed. The entire thread is there, if the snip below doesn't make sense. On the Pi, even your root account does not have access to the /files directory where Citadel stores attachments.: 


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Yeah, this was one of the main reasons I updated to an i5 NUC and full Debian... and in the process of migrating, I discovered this issue. :) 

Otherwise I was pretty happy running it on a Pi 3, and it ran pretty well. 

But, it was a good learning experience, and made me understand the whole thing better - and get more serious about running the BBS - so, I suppose it was worth it. :) 

Wed Mar 10 2021 19:37:29 EST from NevadaRobSubject: Re: collect: premature EOM: input/output error

Right you are!

for anyone else with this issue

cd /usr/local/citadel

sudo chmod -R 775 test

sudo chown -R citadel:citadel test

Thanks

 

Tue Mar 16 2021 16:00:50 EDT from rbaral233 Subject: Email Server Down... citadel.service fails to start... raspberry pi 4

hey i am having an issue with my email server. It has been up and functioning perfectly for the past probably 6+ months since ive set it up... only 1 user, and everything is setup and running fine before this but i noticed after i was unable to reach the web interface the other day that the server isn't  running. The raspberry pi that its installed on is up and running perfectly, updated through apt-get update/upgrade as of the other day... and is on the network and nothing on any infrastructure end has changed.

BUT randomly like i said i noticed the email server went down and now is not functioning on the raspberry pi, and any attempt to reboot, or cmd prompt "restart or start citadel.service" fails and gives me exit code 105... i get no other info or anything given as to why or what happened or what is failing, but if someone could 1 point me in the right direction as to find the logs and if i can track down when/ why it failed in the first place... as well as if anyone has any experience or knows why or how to repair it or repair the server files as a whole if that may be the issue.....

 

 

Thanks,

Rob

Hello,

Can someone please help us how to restrict ssh communication to only TLSv1.2 at Citadel mail server which is running in docker???

Thanks in advance :)

I noticed with the latest easy-install version of citadel sending mails via some clients (Fairemail) is not possible because smtp's AUTH LOGIN throws a "500 No such user" error when submitting an existing user name.
AUTH PLAIN is working fine.

So i guess smtp LOGIN is broken.

Can this be fixed or LOGIN removed from available AUTH methods?
Or is just something wrong with my setup?

So... 

What *is* the current process for upgrading a production Citadel? I mean, I don't need a step by step - but is it just point to the easyinstall from the machine that you want upgraded, and run it? 

I just want to start to get my horses in order. 

That is my understanding too. 

I'm just not sure if Citadel should be up and running or shut down while the upgrade takes place. I would assume shut down. 

I'm just not sure if this portion of the Citadel administrator's guide is relevant or depreciated: 

Upgrading

Any existing Citadel installation may be upgraded in place without the need to discard your existing data files.

Upgrading to a new version uses the same build procedure as compiling the program for a fresh install, except that you want to do "make upgrade" instead of "make install". This will overwrite the programs but not your data. Be sure to shut down citserver during this process! If Citadel is running while you upgrade, you may face data corruption issues.

After doing make upgrade, you should run setup again to bring your data files up to date. Please see the setup section below for more information on this.

Sat Mar 27 2021 17:41:45 EDT from Nurb432

That is my understanding too. 

If GCC warns of "implicit declaration" of "gettimeofday" in context_loop.c and tcp_sockets.c when compiling Webcit, inserting "#include <sys / time.h>" can prevent this.

An alternative use of "clock_gettime (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, & tx_start);" might also work.

If GCC warns of "deprecated" by "readdir_r" in icontheme.d, subst.c and static.c, this can be the alternative use of "readdir":

'while ((filedir_entry = readdir (filedir))! = NULL)

// while ((readdir_r (filedir, d, & filedir_entry) == 0) && (filedir_entry! = NULL))

... '

prevent.  Webcit runs unchanged. No debug results yet.

"stripout" in tools.c also removes the character to the left of the left boundary for '(lb> 0)'  ?!

So everything between the boundary including the boundary would be removed:

if ( (lb > 0) && (rb > lb) ) { sprintf(&str[lb], &str[rb + 1]); return 1; }
else if ( (lb == 0) && (rb > lb) ) { sprintf(str, &str[rb + 1]); return 1; }

root@secure:/home/donovan# sudo service citadel stop

root@secure:/home/donovan# sudo service webcit stop

root@secure:/home/donovan# ps -a

  PID TTY          TIME CMD

 1297 tty2     00:00:00 gnome-session-b

 1328 tty2     00:00:09 gnome-shell

 1351 tty2     00:00:00 Xwayland

 1430 tty2     00:00:00 gsd-power

 1432 tty2     00:00:00 gsd-print-notif

 1433 tty2     00:00:00 gsd-rfkill

...

wget -q -O - https://easyinstall.citadel.org/install | bash

root@secure:/home/donovan# wget -q -O - https://easyinstall.citadel.org/install | bash

 Welcome to Citadel Easy Install...

...

All finished! You are ready to log in.

I saved notes this time. I've done this several times - but each time, I forget the steps I've pieced together to do this. I did have to do an apt-get update on my production box that wasn't necessary on my test server - but I felt pretty confident that if the test server worked, the upgrade wasn't going to introduce anything that would bork production, being that test is just an image of production. 

A calculated gamble - but I did have a backup. 

I have exported my gmail contacts to a .csv file. Is there a way to import them into "Contacts" in the Citadel mail server? Thanks. I'm new to Citadel, so please be gentle. 

I am trying to find a way to change the default email database for Citadel.  I have installed on a RPi and have a persistent nfs share to a nas which is where I'd like to store the database since I figure the usb drive I'm booting the RPi from would fill up rather quickly.  I've looked at several resources and they all say that I should be prompted for the database location when I run ./setup but I only get admin user, password, ports, and auth. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How to reset the password on the admin account with a ssh connect to the server.

I've googled and you have no idea how many things out there are called "citadel". Steam apparently have a game and it swamps the search hits for overriding passwords, even if you put a -steam qualifier.

I did find a very belated note out there that the maximum character length is 32 characters, which may or may not be outdated information. The shortest maximum I've ever seen was 9 characters on ICQ after the protocol became popular in Russia, presumably someone running the network was trying hard not to get arrested.

Anyway, I fell head-first into the trap and I don't know how to climb out. I could re-run the easy install but I thought I'd ask and then go for a walk.