Migrate old iRedMail server to the latest stable release

WARNING: Please try it on a test server first. if it works well, then try it on product server.

Since new iRedMail server will install same components as old server, you can choose what data you want to migrate. Most important data are:

• email accounts stored in SQL/LDAP.
• user mailboxes. Stored under /var/vmail by default.
• SQL database of Roundcube webmail. It stores per-user webmail preferences, and address book.
• Policyd/Cluebringer database. It stores white/blacklists records, greylisting records, etc.
• Amavisd database.
  • It stores per-recipient white/blacklists in SQL tables: mailaddr, policy, users, wblist.
  • Basic info of in/out emails are stored in SQL tables: maddr, msgs, msgrcpt. Quarantined emails are stored in quarantine, it requires other 3 tables. If you don't have any quarantined emails, it's safe to delete all records in these 4 tables.

WARNING: Do not restore database mysql exported from old server, it contains SQL usernames/passwords for Roundcube/Amavisd/Policyd/Cluebringer used on old server. New iRedMail server has the same SQL usernames, but different passwords. So please do not restore it.

Client settings (Outlook, Thunderbird)

Since iRedMail-0.8.7, iRedMail enforces secure POP3/IMAP/SMTP connections. Mail client programs must issue 'STARTTLS' command before authentication, so please update your mail client programs you must change your mail client programs (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird) to use TLS connection.

• For SMTP service, use port 587 with STARTTLS (or TLS).
• For IMAP service, use port 143 with STARTTLS (or TLS).
• For POP3 service, use port 110 with STARTTLS (or TLS).

Additional notes:

• If you want to enable smtp authentication on port 25 (again, not recommended), please comment out Postfix parameter smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes in its config file /etc/postfix/main.cf.

• if you want to enable SMTPS (SMTP over SSL, port 465) to support legency mail clients, please follow this tutorial: How to enable SMTPS service.

LDAP: migrate mail accounts

Steps to migrate LDAP mail accounts:

• Setup a new server with the latest iRedMail, and make iRedAdmin-Pro-LDAP work as expected.
• Export mail accounts from LDAP on OLD mail server.

Normally, LDAP data can be exported into LDIF format. Here's backup/export script: http://www.iredmail.org/wiki/index.php?title=IRedMail/FAQ/Backup

Notes:

• There might be some changes in LDAP schema, please find scripts here to apply all required changes.
• Here are all upgrade tutorials for iRedMail.

MySQL/PostgreSQL: Migrate mail accounts

All mail accounts are stored in database vmail by default, to migrate mail accounts, you can simply export this database on old server, then import it on new server.

IMPORTANT NOTE: iRedMail-0.8.7 drops several SQL columns, so before you import backup SQL database, please add them first. It's safe to drop them after you imported old database on new server.

mysql> USE vmail;

mysql> ALTER TABLE mailbox ADD COLUMN bytes BIGINT(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
mysql> ALTER TABLE mailbox ADD COLUMN messages BIGINT(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN defaultlanguage VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'en_US';
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN defaultuserquota BIGINT(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1024';
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN defaultuseraliases TEXT;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN disableddomainprofiles VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN disableduserprofiles VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN defaultpasswordscheme VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN minpasswordlength INT(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain ADD COLUMN maxpasswordlength INT(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

mysql> ALTER TABLE alias ADD COLUMN islist TINYINT(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

After imported backup SQL databases, please execute below commands to mark mail alias accounts and drop above newly created columns:

mysql> USE vmail;
mysql> UPDATE alias SET islist=1 WHERE address NOT IN (SELECT username FROM mailbox);
mysql> UPDATE alias SET islist=0 WHERE address=domain;    -- domain catch-all account

-- Store values into new column: domain.settings and drop them
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings='';
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(defaultlanguage IS NULL OR defaultlanguage='', '', CONCAT('default_language:', defaultlanguage, ';')));
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(defaultuserquota IS NULL OR defaultuserquota=0, '', CONCAT('default_user_quota:', defaultuserquota, ';')));
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(defaultuseraliases IS NULL OR defaultuseraliases='', '', CONCAT('default_groups:', defaultuseraliases, ';')));
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(minpasswordlength IS NULL OR minpasswordlength=0, '', CONCAT('min_passwd_length:', minpasswordlength, ';')));
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(maxpasswordlength IS NULL OR maxpasswordlength=0, '', CONCAT('max_passwd_length:', maxpasswordlength, ';')));
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(disableddomainprofiles IS NULL OR disableddomainprofiles='', '', CONCAT('disabled_domain_profiles:', disableddomainprofiles, ';')));
mysql> UPDATE domain SET settings=CONCAT(settings, IF(disableduserprofiles IS NULL OR disableduserprofiles='', '', CONCAT('disabled_user_profiles:', disableduserprofiles, ';')));

mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP defaultlanguage;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP defaultuserquota;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP defaultuseraliases;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP minpasswordlength;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP maxpasswordlength;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP disableddomainprofiles;
mysql> ALTER TABLE domain DROP disableduserprofiles;

IMPORTANT NOTE: There might be some changes in SQL structure, please read all upgrade tutorials for your current iRedMail release, then apply SQL structure related changes. Check upgrade tutorials for iRedMail.

Migrate mailboxes (Maildir format)

• Simply copy all mailboxes (in Maildir format) to new iRedMail server.
• Set correct file owner of mailboxes. Default owner is vmail, group is vmail.
• Set correct file permission of mailboxes. Default is 0700.

WARNING: please make sure maildir path stored in SQL/LDAP matches the mailbox path on file system, so that mail clients can find imported emails.

• With SQL backends, you can get full maildir path of user with below SQL command:

mysql> USE vmail;
mysql> SELECT CONCAT(storagebasedirectory, '/', storagenode, '/', maildir) FROM mailbox WHERE username='user@domain.com';

• With OpenLDAP backend, full maildir path is stored in LDAP attribute homeDirectory of mail user object. You can query with ldapsearch command:

$ ldapsearch -x -D 'cn=Manager,dc=xx,dc=xx' -b 'o=domains,dc=xx,dc=xx' -W "(mail=user@domain.com)" homeDirectory

Migrate Roundcube webmail data

• Export/import roundcube webmail database, and upgrade database to work with new version of Roundcube. http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Upgrade

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