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If someone tries to brute force passwords their IP will be blacklisted.

  • The IP will be denied access then un-listed after 24 hours
  • This can be immediately cleared by restarting the Noodle service
  • The feature may be disabled or specific whitelisting entries added from the System Settings > Security section
  • The default threshold (20 failures per minute) may be adjusted  via the BlackList.PerMinuteThreshold option in noodle.properties.
  • One NATed IPv4 user can get many users blacklisted due to shared IP. IPv6 or internal monitoring are the only way to prevent that without disabling blacklisting.

  1. Use a mobile device that is not restrictive (LineageOS is recommended) or at least permits the Installation of Google Chrome.Push_1
  2. Install Google Chrome.Push_2
  3. Open Noodle (SSL must be used).Push_3
  4. Login.Push_4
  5. View Messages, and click subscribe.Push_5
  6. Use a desktop browser to create and fill in the push URL setting.Push_6
  7. Push subscribe with your mobile again, and now when someone sends you an instant message you will be Notified. Notifications will also show up on smart watches.Push_7

Emails can be sent in the following 5 ways:

  • Subscriptions (per user)
    • My Profile > Edit > What's New > Subscription
    • System Tools > People > [USER] > What's New > Subscription
    • System Tools > Settings > General > Email usage report
  • Auto notifications (per folder)
    • Administration > Auto Notification
    • (supported folder application types only)
  • Workflow (per folder)
    • Workflow Tab
    • (supported folder application types only)
  • Memo manger (per site)
    • System application
  • Mention and reply
    • Can be disabled in Profile > Edit > Email on mention
  • Notification (any item or folder)
    • any user can notify any other user of any item
  • Password reset
    • System Tools > Security > General > Allow the "Forgot my Password" feature
  • Health warnings

How to prevent emails from Noodle from being marked as spam.

If you are hosted by Vialect and are using mail.vialect.net in the SMTP settings half of it is already taken care of:

  • If using SPF add our mail server, then verify with.
    • Lin
      dig sub.domain.tld TXT +short | grep spf
    • Win
      nslookup -type=TXT sub.domain.tld | findstr spf
  • If using Google mail client add a filter (to add a tag) for anything with your Noodle domain name in it.
  • If you are using an SPF please add include:mail.vialect.net

If hosting Noodle on your own server or using your own SMTP server, additionally:

  • Whitelist the Noodle server (Postfix, Spamassassin, Exchange)
  • Use authentication in the Noodle setting
    • [user:pass@]domain.tld[:port][,protocol]

Another option is to use something like noreply@vialect.com in the "Send system emails from" system setting.

Check potential issues from

System Tools > Analytics > electronic mail address issues

The Search Bar gives Noodle users the power to quickly and conveniently locate Noodle content.

In the following example, the user has decided to search using the search text 'Accounting'. Noodle will now present the user a list of all matches based on the search criteria given:

The user may now click one of the links shown to be taken to the information page for that file. Any results that are contained in a folder will direct a user to the information page - others such as emails and forum posts, the user will be taken directly to them.search

Once the structure has been created, we can now look at creating groups that will allow us to control permissions and access rights. Group names should be explanatory of the role they represent.

To create groups, click on Groups inside System Tools. Existing Groups will be displayed at the top of the page.  Click on a group to display it's members in the lower part of the screen. Members can also be added to Groups here at any time.

Click on the 'Create Group' button, enter a name in the text box marked Group Name, and click 'Save' to confirm.

Noodle can be automatically translated into 92 languages, 11 are currently in use.
After requesting a language, we will send you an archive with a csv file containing a column of auto translated sentence fragments and another with the English it was derived from. Empty lines will default to the English representation. Send us your translation corrections.