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Changing the debug options for citserver provided no error messages.

Wed Jun 20 2012 06:13:06 EDT from ChojinDSL @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Fetchmail can no longer fetch mail FROM Citadel via IMAP

This problem still persists. Fetchmail is capable of retrieving emails from citadel via POP3, but not via IMAP.

The fetchmail error "status 7" means, according to fetchmail's man page :

"7      There was an error condition reported by the server.  Can also fire if fetchmail timed out while waiting for the server."

 

I've also tried specifying a timeout of 30 seconds, but it's the same error regardless.

How can I display debug output from citadel to see if there are any error messages generated by citadel which might provide further clues?

I'm runnin Citadel 8.11 by the way.

 

 

Thu Feb 23 2012 11:34:29 EST from ChojinDSL @ Uncensored Subject: Fetchmail can no longer fetch mail FROM Citadel via IMAP

I use fetchmail to train Spamassassin.

 

Basically I have a cron script which runs every 5 minutes. Fetchmail connects to a account which has a Spam and Ham folder. These two folders are shared with all users on the system, so that there is a central place to store spam and ham mails for training. The script pipes the download mails from fetchmail to sa-learn with the respective ham or spam flag.

However, no all of a sudden fetchmail is no longer to fetchmail from Citadel.

 

Here's an example of the fetchmail output:

#################################

fetchmail: IMAP< From: "subject" <name@email.com>
fetchmail: IMAP< )
fetchmail: IMAP< A0009 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: Incorrect FETCH response: * 1 FETCH (.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0010 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE mail.server.com logging out
fetchmail: IMAP< A0010 OK Citadel IMAP session ended.
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from SpamTrainer@192.168.192.8
fetchmail: 6.3.21 querying 192.168.192.8 (protocol IMAP) at Thu Feb 23 17:29:42 2012: poll completed
Merged UID list from 192.168.192.8: <empty>
fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 7

#################################

 

I've tried all sorts of fetchmail options, but to no avail. This happens regardless of trying to train spam or ham. I thought it might have to do with some Spam mails having some weird headers that fetchmail craps out on, but I can't even fetch legitimate test emails that I sent myself.

 

 

 

 

can you please provide a sniff of such a session?

http://www.citadel.org/doku.php?id=faq:mastering_your_os:net_sniff

please turn of TLS (if) and change for a temporary password.

provide the errormessage along the sniff please.

I have installed citadel 3 times now, but in the life of me I am unable to make webcit listen on ipv4 interfaces!

This is FreeBSD 9.x and sockstat -l | grep cit gives:

root     webcit     74724 6  tcp6   *:2000                *:*

How do I make webcit listen only on tcp4, not tcp6?

BTW, if anyone can alert the developers, I a small change is required in install script for a successful build on FreeBSD:

Line 112 and 113  does not require a space:

LDADD="-L/usr/local/lib" # no need fo the space between -L and /usr/local/lib

INCADD="-I/usr/local/include" # remove space between -L and /usr/local/include

Those changes make the build succeed on FreeBSD.

hm, did they change the matrix? or do I have a dejavu?

the question was answered before btw.

I cannot see this in the FAQ.

I want Citadel to allow relay from my subnet a.b.c.d/XX

Howdy?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Robert J. Clay <rjclay@gmail.com> wrote:

    I used db_recover .... to successfully recover yesterday and was able to start up
again.   Found this afternoon, however,  that the same thing happened again.
 Successfully  recovered again.

   Same kind of thing  happened again this afternoon.  Successfully
recovered again.  I'll see how it goes now.

can you set up a cron job doing

lsof | grep citserver > `date +%x-%X`. txt

once per minute and corelate the files which belong to such an error message?

or.. authenticate your mails.

i.e. msmtp is sufficient for sending cron mails & co from your remote hosts.

Hi

Please can anyone point me towards what to do next?

I ran easy install on CentOS6 on a VPS.  It aborted, this is the last bit of the error log:

mkdir /usr/local/citadel/techdoc
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/package-setup.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/package-setup.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/hack.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/hack.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/binaries.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/binaries.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/PAM.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/PAM.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/developers.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/developers.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/build.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/build.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/views.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/views.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/delivery-list.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/delivery-list.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/netconfigs.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/netconfigs.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/citadelapi.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/citadelapi.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./techdoc/test_suite.txt /usr/local/citadel/./techdoc/test_suite.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 openldap/./citadel.schema /usr/local/citadel/./citadel.schema
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 openldap/./rfc2739.schema /usr/local/citadel/./rfc2739.schema
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 README.txt /usr/local/citadel/README.txt
gmake[1]: msgfmt: Command not found
gmake[1]: *** [../../locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/citadel-setup.mo] Error 127
gmake: *** [install-locale] Error 2
Operating system: Linux RedHat 6.2(Final 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5.028stab085.2 i686)
[root@server tmp]#

I would be very grateful for any suggestions.

on debian:

dpkg -S `which msgfmt `
gettext: /usr/bin/msgfmt

did you give the OBS rpms a try yet?

Wed Jun 20 2012 17:22:53 EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Easy install aborts

on debian:

dpkg -S `which msgfmt `
gettext: /usr/bin/msgfmt

did you give the OBS rpms a try yet?

OBS?

Wed Jun 20 2012 17:28:39 EDT from JohnG @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Easy install aborts

 

Wed Jun 20 2012 17:22:53 EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Easy install aborts

on debian:

dpkg -S `which msgfmt `
gettext: /usr/bin/msgfmt

did you give the OBS rpms a try yet?

OBS?

http://citadel.org/doku.php?id=installation:start#citadelrpmsforsusefedoramandriva

can you set up a cron job doing

lsof | grep citserver > `date +%x-%X`. txt

once per minute and corelate the files which belong to such an error
message?

Any preference to the software used? Will a filtered tcpdump output suffice? Or should I use something like wireshark?

Wed Jun 20 2012 09:09:39 EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Fetchmail can no longer fetch mail FROM Citadel via IMAP

can you please provide a sniff of such a session?

http://www.citadel.org/doku.php?id=faq:mastering_your_os:net_sniff

please turn of TLS (if) and change for a temporary password.

provide the errormessage along the sniff please.

Thu Jun 21 2012 02:31:09 EDTfrom "Robert J. Clay" <rjclay@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Citadel Support] Re: 'Too many open files' errors after upgrade to 8.11-2 on Debian

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:03 PM, dothebart
<dothebart@uncensored.citadel.org> wrote:

I can't do that just yet but I did do a quick look at what that's
showing now & found a large number of lines for
/var/spool/citadel/network/spoolout/trada; trada (trada.rocasa.us) is
the Citadel uplink for that particular server. I shut citadel down,
removed the file, then started it back up again. It showed back up
again after a few minutes. And, if I'm reading the logs at this end
correctly, there were several lines showing (from lsof) for that file
even after I thought it had a successful session with trada.
--
Robert J. Clay
rjclay@gmail.com

ah, thats a well known and hot trace.

current GIT Master contains several changes to the citadel networking module.

can you retest with it whether this fixes your problems?

You need to upgrade libcitadle too;

heres howto compile the debs:

http://citadel.org/doku.php?id=installation:debian#tobuildfromsource

(you need to ./bootstrap to do that with git master)

heres howto obtain a clone of the git tree:

http://citadel.org/doku.php?id=installation:sourcecode

Thu Jun 21 2012 02:31:09 EDTfrom "Robert J. Clay" <rjclay@gmail.com>

I can't do that just yet but I did do a quick look at what that's
showing now & found a large number of lines for
/var/spool/citadel/network/spoolout/trada; trada (trada.rocasa.us) is
the Citadel uplink for that particular server. ...

ah, thats a well known and hot trace.

current GIT Master contains several changes to the citadel networking
module.

can you retest with it whether this fixes your problems?

You need to upgrade libcitadle too;