Upgrade help

Impacted versions

• Modoboa: 1.9.1
• installer used: Yes
• Webserver: Nginx

Hi. Hi, I would like to upgrade modoboa but, let’s be clear, I don’t understand anything! As much as the installation script is simple, the update procedure is really difficult…

If I try to do it: python manage. py generate_postfix_maps --force --destdir /etc/postfix/ This is my mistake:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage. py", line 17, in <module>
    "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

I’m probably supposed to do these orders:

source <virtuenv_path>/bin/activate

But what to replace <virtuenv_path>? I used the installer, I have no idea what to do! I replaced <modoboa_user> by modoboa because I have a modoboa user, I guess it’s him…

Thank you in advance for your help.

[CooperBarrett]

Finally!!! I finally managed to update Modoboa to 1.10.0. Honestly, I find the doc is not super clear, especially for a beginner like me. I’ll try to give my steps to get there.

Information : I’m on Debian Stretch I used the modoboa installer I left from modoboa 1.9.1 I am a beginner, do not necessarily take these instructions literally, I put it only to give indications to those who like me had difficulty finding my way in the doc.

Steps

We use the modoboa user :

sudo -u modoboa -i
bash
source env/bin/activate

Normally you should see (env) appear in front of it. Then we update the extensions:

pip install modoboa-amavis==1.2.0
pip install modoboa-contacts==0.5.0
pip install modoboa-dmarc==1.1.0
pip install modoboa--imap-migration==1.2.0
pip install modoboa-pdfcredentials==1.3.0
pip install modoboa-postfix-autoreply==1.4.0
pip install modoboa-radicale==1.2.0
pip install modoboa-sievefilters==1.4.0
pip install modoboa-stats==1.4.0
pip install modoboa-webmail==1.4.0

We will now follow the instructions of the doc: http://modoboa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html#specific-upgrade-instructions nano instance/instance/settings.py Add 'modoboa.transport' to MODOBOA_APPS:

MODOBOA_APPS = (
   'modoboa',
   'modoboa.core',
   'modoboa.lib',
   'modoboa.admin',
   'modoboa.transport',
   'modoboa.relaydomains',
   'modoboa.limits',
   'modoboa.parameters',
)

Replace the following line:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (

by:

MIDDLEWARE = (

Exit the user modoboa.

exit
exit

Double exit because we used bash.

cd /srv/modoboa/instance/

sudo rm -f /etc/postfix/modoboa-postfix-maps.chk
sudo /srv/modoboa/env/bin/python manage.py generate_postfix_maps --force --destdir /etc/postfix/

We modify the configuration of postfix : sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf

smtpd_sender_login_maps =
  proxy:pgsql:/etc/postfix/sql-sender-login-map.cf

transport_maps =
  pgsql:/etc/postfix/sql-transport.cf
  pgsql:/etc/postfix/sql-spliteddomains-transport.cf

If transport_maps contains sql-relaydomains-transport.cf, remove it.

We’re restarting postfix: sudo service postfix restart

Modify the modoboa crontab : sudo nano /etc/cron.d/modoboa Add the following cron job at the end :

# Generate DKIM keys (they will belong to the user running this job)
*       *       *       *       *       root    $PYTHON $INSTANCE/manage.py modo manage_dkim_keys

Update Modoboa We’re going back to modoboa user :

sudo -u modoboa -i
bash
source env/bin/activate

And we do the update plus the migration of modoboa :

cd
pip install modoboa==1.10.0
cd instance
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py check --deploy

And we restart the server. Normally, everything should be okay.

[Cr4shOv3rrid3]

Do you have this question? (modoboa-amavis.W001) AMAVIS_DEFAULT_DATABASE_ENCODING does not match the character encoding used by the Amavis database.

to fix this issue pretending you did follow everything through with the modoboa user and activated virtual environment

in modoboa folder you will find a hidden folder named “.local” (without quotes)

this is due to using virtual environment on top of modoboa user

it makes sure everything that runs is installed there in your appropriate python3.x/site-packages folder inside and through that hidden location.

now switch inside that folder to modoboa-amavis folder inside you will find settings.py file

now inside that file you will find following entry

settings[“AMAVIS_DEFAULT_DATABASE_ENCODING”] = “UTF8”

i just already changed it into UTF8 from something like LATIN1 make sure you did the same and you will no longer get those annoying encoding warnings.