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CitadelSync

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Sync local files with a Citadel Mail Server

CitadelSync can sync files with a specified room on a local or remote Citadel Mail Server.

You may sync any type of text files but Citadel Sync is most useful for

  • Contacts from vCards .vcf
  • Notes from vNotes .vnt
  • Calendar .vcs or .ics
  • Task .vcs or .ics
  • Text from any text based files .txt

Install

From Executable

Download the executable for your system from
https://bitbucket.org/gotamer/citadel/downloads

Install From Go Source

First install Go
With go installed run
go get bitbucket.org/gotamer/citadel
cd citadelsync
go install

HowTo use

Create a config file.

Following will create a template for the contacts room

citadelsync -n contacts

Edit the config file contacts.cfg.json

{
    "Version": 3,
    "Environment": 1,
    "LocalDir": "/home/username/PIM/contacts",
    "Room": "Contacts",
    "Username": "TaMeR",
    "Password": "God knows what",
    "Server": "localhost",
    "Port": ":504",
    "Floor": "Not implemented",
    "SSL_KEY": "Not yet implemented",
    "SSL_CER": "Not yet implemented"
}

Version:

Do not change unless prompted after an upgrade.

Environment:

1. Production
2. Info mode, prints a lot of info in to the log file
3. Debug mode, will print to screen, and exit if it finds something not quite right

LocalDir:

Point to the local folder containing your vCards, vNotes etc. files. You should make a folder for each type, since each folder will represent a room in the Citadel server.

  • Citadel Contacts to the contacts folder
  • Citadel Tasks to the tasks` folder
  • etc.

Room:

The Citadel Room to upload to

Username and Password

Your Citadel username or password. Keep empty "" to specify on the command line.

Server:

Your Citadel hostname, such as example.com

Port:

Your Citadel port. The standard port is 504 if you haven't changed it on the server.

Populate your sync directory

Your sync directory is:

"LocalDir": "/home/username/PIM/contacts"

In this example we would place our vCard files in to this directory

*Files must be individual files each holding a single entry

Copy to Citadel

Now the setup is done!

Following command will copy all files to the Citadel server.

citadelsync -n contacts

This will

  1. Check your server connection
  2. Your login information
  3. The availability of the room
  4. The compatibillity of the room with the local file type
  5. Your LocalDir sync directory

If everything checks out it will upload all files from your LocalDir to the specified Room on the local or remote Citadel Server.

Notes

  • Files must be individual files each holding a single entry residing in one folder, anywhere on your computer or device.

  • Citadel Sync remembers the state of your files and will only upload modified files

  • Citadel Sync will not delete or modify any files it didn't upload, unless you use the -D flag.

  • A file with the extension *.db.json will be created. Please do not modify this file by hand!!!

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2013 Dennis T Kaplan http://www.robotamer.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub-license, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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