Hello! We run citadel with active directory and its been very wonderful but our tech wants to know if theres a way to turn up the time until next LDAP login.. the citadel server creates a login request every single second. its configured right and looks to be successfully authenticated, but it happens too often and our tech would like to be able to set it to happen every minute or every 5 minutes as we assume its for the SMTP server

Citadel does not do that unless someone is trying to log in.   Best guess here is that some spammer is trying to brute force your Citadel server via its SMTP port.

Check your logs and figure out who the culprit is, and block their IP address.

Just tried running citadel from docker, but webcit would exit, returning code 101. My admittidly brief search of the web documentation didn't turn anything up. Any suggestions as to where I can look?

Exit code 101 means it can't migrate the configuration.  Do you have an old citadel.config file lying around?  If so, try moving it out of the way (somewhere safe-- don't delete it) before starting Citadel.

Help.

Hope this is the right place to go. If not where should I go?

This is a new PI with Debian's latest OS.

I installed Debian with no problems.

I downloaded and installed Citadel from instructions found on Google or Pi's pages.

The install appears to have completed but when I try to start the server, nothing happens.

What should I do next?

TIA, A4ginatl.

It should auto start. Might want to share the instructions you used. 

I lost my reply so starting again.

Today I was able to start Citadel and get the prompt page. However, I must have fat fingered the password because it does not like my password.

I did not use root as its common to all, but for now that was not a good idea.

Whats the best way to reset the password or do I have to install citadel again and use all the defaults?

TIA, A4ginATL.

i DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT PASSORD IS.

How can i change it?

Can it be changed in the password file?

If yes, how do I do that?

Thank you

A4GinATL

i DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT PASSORD IS.

How can i change it?

Can it be changed in the password file?

If yes, how do I do that?

Thank you

A4GinATL

Mon Sep 12 2022 09:24:03 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: trying to install Citadel on a Raspberry PI.

Well, for starters, you posted your request for Citadel help in the Lobby, which the support page clearly says not to do. I have moved your request to the Citadel Support room. I hope you find your way here.

You need to let us know where you read the instructions and what installation method you used (Easy Install, Docker, compiled from source, etc). Also if you used the .deb packages in the Raspberry Pi OS repositories you will have to start over, as those packages are very old and unsupported.

Are you saying that I should switch to something like Ubuntu?

Darryl.

Mon Sep 12 2022 09:24:03 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: trying to install Citadel on a Raspberry PI.

Well, for starters, you posted your request for Citadel help in the Lobby, which the support page clearly says not to do. I have moved your request to the Citadel Support room. I hope you find your way here.

You need to let us know where you read the instructions and what installation method you used (Easy Install, Docker, compiled from source, etc). Also if you used the .deb packages in the Raspberry Pi OS repositories you will have to start over, as those packages are very old and unsupported.

Are you saying that I should switch to something like Ubuntu?

Darryl.

curl http://easyinstall.citadel.org/install | sudo bash

Does Citadel have fetaures t check for junk mail and prevent relaying options?

Thank you.

As I messed up the root password for Citadel, is there a way to edit the password file or do I have to rebuild the system?

TIA, Darryl.

Tue Aug 30 2022 07:24:25 PM EDT from nristen Subject: enable debug logging level

I am trying use the aerc email client with my citadel server (version 957).  Aerc works fine with my gmail account (trying to get rid of that).

Aerc connects and displays the imap folders and the number of messages in each folder but does not retrieve the messages.  The aerc logs are showing the following error:

2022/08/30 17:50:07 Opening INBOX

Lr7rxQ SELECT INBOX

* 173 EXISTS

* 32 RECENT

* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1] UID validity status

* OK [UIDNEXT 11222] Predicted next UID

* FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen \Answered)

* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Deleted \Seen \Answered)] permanent flags

Lr7rxQ OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed

2022/08/30 17:50:08 ->(ui) *types.Done:*types.OpenDirectory

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (= *client.MailboxUpdate

2022/08/30 17:50:08 ->(ui) *types.DirectoryInfo

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (= *client.MailboxUpdate

2022/08/30 17:50:08 ->(ui) *types.DirectoryInfo

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (ui)<= *types.Done(32):*types.OpenDirectory(31)

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (ui)<= *types.DirectoryInfo(33)

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (ui)<= *types.DirectoryInfo(34)

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (ui)=> *types.FetchDirectoryContents

2022/08/30 17:50:08 <-(ui) *types.FetchDirectoryContents(35)

2022/08/30 17:50:08 Fetching UID list

6enMkg UID SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 1:*

* SEARCH 

6enMkg OK UID SEARCH completed

2022/08/30 17:50:08 Found 0 UIDs

2022/08/30 17:50:08 ->(ui) *types.DirectoryContents:*types.FetchDirectoryContents

2022/08/30 17:50:08 ->(ui) *types.Done:*types.FetchDirectoryContents

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (ui)<= *types.DirectoryContents(36):*types.FetchDirectoryContents(35)

2022/08/30 17:50:08 (ui)<= *types.Done(37):*types.FetchDirectoryContents(35)

I think that the message, "Found 0 UIDs" might be what is causing the problem.

I don't see any errors in the citadel syslog so I am wondering how to enable a different logging level to show citadel's debug logs?

Or if anyone has any other ideas or possible experience getting the aerc client to work?

Thank you

Follow up: I am currently using mbsync/isync to download from imap to a local maildir which I then configured the aerc client to access.

Hello again everyone!

I have another problem I hope you can help me solve. I have gotten pidgin to act as a client for the XMPP server on my citserver, but I am having an issue accessing it on Thunderbird.

Thunderbird has a few pages to the setup wizard and I tried to duplicate the settings in your pidgin howto. I am filling in my entries below with the same info in your howto.

[1]

Username: ignatiustfoobar

Domain: uncensored.citadel.org

[2]

Password: *******

[3]

Local Alias

---------------------

Alias:

XMPP Options

---------------------

Resource: home

Priority: 0

Connection Security: (Dropdown){Require encryption}

Server: uncensored.citadel.org

Port: 5022

Would these presumably be correct? When I enter these values the client hangs on "Connecting" Initializing encryption..."

I've been running citadel 929 for a while now on a linux mint 20.1 system.  While investigating certificates it says I should upgrade to 942 or newer.  If I look at the software manager on the Mint system it appears that the version available is very old.

I read the manual install instructions, and while I get the make upgrade vs make install part, I am at a loss as to a number of other things I would need to do to manually install it.  So clearly I'm not admin enough for that path.

I originally installed using the easy install method.  My question is, is there an Easy Upgrade to go with that, or if I just use the Easy Install will it do an upgrade rather than completely reinstall the packages?

Thanks.