Just got a new server and migrated all data over. 4.5GB total 150000 objects

there is one issue and its been going for a day now writing to disk.

Can anyone give details how this function works or if this is normal operation

True fact: I spend most of my work day playing a game, I think it's called "Forgot My Password" and its a clickable link on almost every website invented since geocities. I click that game and it invariably although somewhat different per site, gives me clues as to how to reset a forgotten password. I know passwords should never be written down and post-it noted near the computer, so I go a step further and not only refuse to write passwords down, but also I refuse to commit them to my own memory.

I tried (without success, probably due to my ADD or Alcoholism or both) to implement a "Forgot my Password" routine in webcit for citadel.smashbot.com. I think IRRC the problem I ran into, if I remember correctly, sans repeating myself was that webcit uses Berkeley DB, noSql... I guess I am too stupid to figure out how to do it.

SO- can anyone talk about solving the biggest oversight in the citadel solar system? Forgot My Password! I am tired of being someone else. I started to talk about this very topic and, no...wait, that wasn't me.

One way is to implement U2F authentication with hardware keys that you treat the same as every other important key on a physical keyring.

Mon May 01 2023 23:16:25 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: How works the automatic message eraser in webcit?

I want to erase all old messages after a year. How do it works? I try it

in

webcit, but it dosnt save these settings?!

Remember that you can apply these settings on an individual room, a floor, or the whole system. Check to see if you're applying it in the correct place.

I want to use this settings for the whole system. I must do it with webcit.

I login as admin, go to the system settings and there is a tab "automatic eraser" and there I can set ph to erase all messages being older than 365 days. I save this but when I open this site the next time, the old standard is shown. No automatic eraser!!

I just installed citadel through easyinstall, how to I get to web client?

Hello all,

I just got Citadel running (installed using Easy-Install on a raspi 0w) and am trying to add an attachment to a post in the lobby. When drafting the message, I added the attachment by clicking on the Attachments tab, but I cannot find the attachment after posting. What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks for your help

After looking through settings a bit deeper, I found it. Thanks to the developers for this awesome tool.

Tue Jun 13 2023 14:17:47 EDT from ramponderson Subject: Trying to understand attachments

Hello all,

 

I just got Citadel running (installed using Easy-Install on a raspi 0w) and am trying to add an attachment to a post in the lobby. When drafting the message, I added the attachment by clicking on the Attachments tab, but I cannot find the attachment after posting. What am I doing wrong here?

 

Thanks for your help

The documentation says there is no alias limit for a user, but I hit a limit.  I have 50 alias of ~20 characters each.  There appears to be a character limit for the alias field on the Admin window.  There is a row entry limit on the user address card.

How can I (more directly?) enter all my aliases?  I look forward to your reply.

hi, 

I have a working citadel set up that seems to be working ok (Citadel Server 972 with WebCit 974)

I would like to upgrade to the latest version of both server and webcit.  what is the easiest way of doing this without having to follow the  compilation process "make upgrade" etc?

Is there a way I can use the "easy install" method that will upgrade my system without losing data?

thanks

Craig.

Excellent!  So, my interpretation is those are mutually exclusive, but mutually applicable fields.  In other words: no overlap and they both apply.

thanks :)

Thu Jun 15 2023 13:35:30 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: easy installed system - upgrade?

If you performed the original installation using Easy Install, you can also upgrade using Easy Install.

It will detect that you have an existing installation and automatically perform an upgrade.

If you built it manually, just take a good backup, then delete everything except the following directories:
/usr/local/citadel/data
/usr/local/citadel/keys
/usr/local/citadel/files
/usr/local/citadel/messages
And then either run Easy Install or deploy the Docker container version.
Again, your existing data will be detected and it will perform an upgrade.

Hi Team,

I'm hoping someone can help with some advice. I've recently installed citadel via easyinstall script but I'm struggling with outbound email. I'm running the server on a residential connections which blocks port 25 so I've setup a smart host in the format username:password@smtp_relay:port . I've also made sure my SSL certs are valid and I can receive emails. Outbound, the smart host keeps throwing an authentication error 535. There are no smart host logs unfortunately but I've turned debugging on the citadel server with the following output

I've run a packet capture but the traffic is SSL encrypted so I can see why its throwing an error. I have tested the smart host connection via telnet and I can connect and send emails.

Is there anyway I can see what username and password is being sent to the smart host? I'd greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions you have.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Understood. :)  I can work with that.

Any plans to update the input fields so they are no longer the restriction to taking full advantage of truly unlimited aliases as per the documentation?  Time frame?

I have remote retrieval setup to poll my email at Godaddy.com every 900 seconds via POP3.  It pulls emails from 2005 to 2016 into Citadel; whereas my Godaddy.com email history extends to the present.  What to do?

What is the question being asked here?