How to Install Citadel 9 with

SpamAssassin and ClamAV on a

CentOS 7 VPS
In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-bystep instructions on how to install Citadel on a CentOS 7 VPS. Citadel is an open
source messaging and collaboration platform. Citadel has lot of useful features,
such as managing emails, calendars, scheduling, instant messaging and other
collaboration tools. The full feature list is available here.
This install guide assumes that a web server is already installed and configured
on your virtual server, so make sure to use a different port for the WebCit front
end. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Citadel is 9.01.
Update your operating system packages, then install the Development Tools
using the following commands:
yum clean all
yum update
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

The Development tools are a yum group, which is a predefined bundle of

software (GCC, C/C++ compilers, make etc.) that can be installed on your virtual
server at once, instead of having to install each application separately. The
Development tools are mainly used to allow a user build and compile software
from source code etc.
In order to finish the installation successfully, Citadel requires some additional
packages such as WebCit front end, Berkeley DB, libical, libSieve etc., so run the
following command to install them:
yum install gettext openssl-devel shared-mime-info which

Start the installation process:

cd /opt/
/usr/bin/wget -q -O - http://easyinstall.citadel.org/install | sh

Citadel installation will automatically download and install all required

dependencies. Once this process is complete, follow the easy steps:
enter the name and password of the administrator user account

set user ID to 'citadel'

enter '0.0.0.0' as IP address which the server should be listening to

set the TCP port number to '504'

choose 'internal' as user authentication mode

set WebCit to automatically start on boot

set the locale WebCit should use (e.g. en_US)

set WebCit to listen on port 2000 for HTTP requests

set WebCit to listen on port 2443 for HTTPS requests

Install SpamAssassin:
yum install spamassassin

Edit the local.cf configuration file and set SpamAssassin to rewrite the subject
of spam emails:
vi /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
rewrite_header Subject [SPAM]

Enable SpamAssassin to automatically start on boot and start the SpamAssassin

service:
systemctl enable spamassassin
systemctl start spamassassin

Update SpamAssassin rules using the following command:

sa-update --nogpg

ClamAV is available on EPEL repository, so install the EPEL package using the
following command:
yum install epel-release

Install ClamAV, configure it and update the virus definitions:

yum install clamav clamav-update
sed -i -e "s/^Example/#Example/" /etc/freshclam.conf
freshclam

That is it. The Citadel installation is complete.

Open https://yourdomain.com:2443 using your favorite web browser, log in using
the newly created administrator user account login credentials and start
configuring
Citadel:
Go to Administration >> Domain names and Internet mail configuration >>
SpamAssassin hosts and enter 127.0.0.1 as the IP address of your
SpamAssassin
server.
On the same page, enter 127.0.0.1 to the ClamAV server clamd hosts field as
the IP address of ClamAV server.

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