The Serverlog (journalctl -l --no-pager -u citadel) or the /var/log/mail.infog shows this message:

citserver[18631]: CC[78]MSGCtdlFetchMessage(264546, 1) Failed!

What is wrong, what does it mean?

Citadel in not to configure for mail fetching. A "fetchmail" process for linux is not installed. So, i cannot interpreted this error message from the citadel server.

Any idea?

Thans an greetings, Robert

Hi,

In the documentation, I read "If you configure multiple smart hosts, one will be selected at random for each message that is delivered."  What happens is initial delivery fails.  The same smarthost is used, or another random smarthost is used to retry ?

Kind Regards

Purrfect!  "Matches" should be regex while "Contains" is substring.  Citadel now conforms to mail filtering standards that people are used to.

Thu Mar 09 2023 19:14:40 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Aye, there are ways to make a regex case-insensitive, no magic code
needed there.  Whenever I see "Match" I always think regex, so
that's probably where the confusion came from.

Just for you, Kitty -- commit (commeowt?) 078ba6734b4e210661340b4064d9cdca34572235 -- coming soon to a Citadel near you!

The "matches" operator now performs a regular expression match instead of a substring match. I tested it against your example regex that looks for numeric domains.

The "contains" operator still performs a substring match.

Documentation is a bit confusing.

on one hand it indicates Citadel drops/rejects termed SPAM as default, yet references ability to modify the behavior.

My problem is that I can’t find anything that references the ability to modify the behavior. 

would someone point me in the right direction?

I use the latest easy install.

Cheers 

Hi, 

Have been running Citadel on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for a long time successfully. Upgraded the release now and Citadel stopped working. I am using apt installed packages:

citadel-server/focal,now 917-4 amd64 [installed]

citadel-webcit/focal,now 917-dfsg-4 amd64 [installed]

libcitadel4/focal,now 917-3build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

When starting Citadel using services (service citadel start) I get no error:

● citadel.service - LSB: control citadel server start at boot time

     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/citadel; generated)

     Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-04-02 00:42:34 CEST; 18s ago

       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

    Process: 260126 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/citadel start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

BUT - neither do I see registration of ports in netstat nor can I connect using webcit. 

When I try to run citserver from the shell, I get segmentation fault.

Tried to remove and re-install as well as dpkg-reconfigure but cannot get it back to work.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Regards,

Patrick

Hello again,

I believe it is related to network somehow. I got the server to work and does not crash. However, it does not register listeners to the network stack. That prevents webcit and of course external services to connect to it. I have checked multiple times as well as re-installed and run dpkg-reconfigure but no luck. 

Regards,

Patrick

Sat Apr 01 2023 18:45:58 EDT from p.agsten Subject: Citadel stopped working after Ubuntu release upgrade

Hi, 

Have been running Citadel on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for a long time successfully. Upgraded the release now and Citadel stopped working. I am using apt installed packages:

citadel-server/focal,now 917-4 amd64 [installed]

citadel-webcit/focal,now 917-dfsg-4 amd64 [installed]

libcitadel4/focal,now 917-3build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

When starting Citadel using services (service citadel start) I get no error:

● citadel.service - LSB: control citadel server start at boot time

     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/citadel; generated)

     Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-04-02 00:42:34 CEST; 18s ago

       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

    Process: 260126 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/citadel start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

BUT - neither do I see registration of ports in netstat nor can I connect using webcit. 

When I try to run citserver from the shell, I get segmentation fault.

Tried to remove and re-install as well as dpkg-reconfigure but cannot get it back to work.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Regards,

Patrick

Browsing for latest methods and how-tos in

https://uncensored.citadel.org/dotgoto?room=Citadel%20Documentation

What is the meaning of bracketed numbers following some of the user names in the Online users list?

That's how many sessions they have open.

Tue Apr 11 2023 22:52:35 EDT from papa

What is the meaning of bracketed numbers following some of the user names in the Online users list?

Thanks.

Hi there,

Long time lurker, first time caller.

citadel-docker/Dockerfile, line 89: --prefix=/usr needs to be --prefix=/usr/local, otherwise binary gets dumped in /usr/bin and never gets picked up by COPY in line 108.

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 21c885d..a6f8dcc 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ RUN sh -c '\
        export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include && \
        export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib && \
        cd /tmp/ctdl_build/citadel/textclient && \
-       ./configure --prefix=/usr --ctdldir=/citadel_data && \
+       ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --ctdldir=/citadel_data && \
        make && make install && \
        cd /tmp && \
        rm -vfr /tmp/ctdl_build && \

Additionally, textclient configure doesn't set ETCDIR or output it to config.mk. Taking a guess that you'd want it in /usr/local as well.

diff --git a/textclient/configure b/textclient/configure
index 9a7fbec02..512541e43 100755
--- a/textclient/configure
+++ b/textclient/configure
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ done
 
 [ "$PREFIX" = "" ]     && PREFIX=/usr/local
 [ "$BINDIR" = "" ]     && BINDIR=${PREFIX}/bin
+[ "$ETCDIR" = "" ]     && ETCDIR=${PREFIX}/etc
 [ "$CTDLDIR" = "" ]    && CTDLDIR=/usr/local/citadel
 [ "$CFLAGS" = "" ]     && CFLAGS='-Wformat-truncation=0 -ggdb'
 [ "$LDFLAGS" = "" ]    && LDFLAGS=''
@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ cc $tempcc -o $tempfile && {
        echo "LDFLAGS := ${LDFLAGS}"
        echo "PREFIX := ${PREFIX}"
        echo "BINDIR := ${BINDIR}"
+        echo "ETCDIR := ${ETCDIR}"
        echo "CTDLDIR := ${CTDLDIR}"
 ) >config.mk

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?!

Hello,

I was running Citadel build 917 because the server side mail filters work. Today I've installed the latest build (972/974) on a fresh Linux install (Fedora 38).  I would like to retire my old server but without the filters it makes separating spam very difficult.  

I have the following filters on my old and new server:

X-Spam-Status | contains | True | Forward to | <spam email> | continue processing

X-Spam-Status | contains | True | Discard silently | stop

On the old build they work fine.  On the new build they do not work.

I started citadel with -x9 to get the full debug and here is the relative output:

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: inboxrules: for fladmin, messages newer than 11

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: inboxrules: processing rule 0 is xspamstatus

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: inboxrules: loading all of message 12

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: msgbase: CtdlFetchMessage(12, 1)

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: Value of field to compare is: <>

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: substring match: 0

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: exact match: 0

Apr 28 17:42:32 xxxxxxxxxx.com citserver[47844]: citserver[47844]: inboxrules: rule not activated

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Allen

I was able to get the source code of the current build loaded on the new system and I modified /citadel/server/modules/serv_inboxrules.c

When the rule is X-Spam-Status is selected the field 'compare_me' is now filled.

I compiled and installed the change and it worked properly. 

Below is the 'diff' output of the original and new serv_inboxrules.c:

diff serv_inboxrules.c orig/serv_inboxrules.c

490,492d489

<     const char *ptr,*ptr1;          // Temporary variables to get X-Spam-Status

<     int len;

<

620,634c617

<                 if(!IsEmptyStr(msg->cm_fields[eMesageText])){

<                     if((ptr=strstr(msg->cm_fields[eMesageText],"X-Spam-Status"))!=NULL){

<                         len=0;

<                         ptr1=ptr;

<                         while(*ptr1 && (*ptr1!='\r') && (*ptr1!='\n')){

<                             ptr1++;

<                             len++;

<                         }

<                         if(len && (len<SIZ)){

<                             memcpy(compare_me,ptr,len);

<                             compare_me[len]='\0';

<                         }

<                     }

<                 }

<                 break;

---

>

Regards,

Allen