HOWTO migrate your email addresses and mailboxes from WebFaction

jake74

sean hey Sean, I'm getting the same error as rdelrossi with the RuntimeError: Command mbsync -a -c /home/ME/mbsync_MAILBOX.conf --noop returned nonzero exit status 1

I checked the mailbox and it was empty.

Did you both solve this? I see the conversation went off forum.

sean

jake74 please try running the migrator in a loop like this:

while ! wfmigrate email-data maildir.ini --mode do; do sleep 5; done

This is a "repeat until success" loop that will let the command resume if a mail server timeout causes the import to fail.

If it's not a timeout (check the lines of output leading up to the final error) then this might not help, if you think that's the case then please email support with the details, thanks.

jake74

sean This worked with a different mailbox, so I suspect there's an issue with the first mailbox I was trying to import. Will investigate.

Thanks.

svankuyk

Hi all, real new to Opelstack, so glad to join this community!

I was a customer of WEBFACTION and now I'm left a bit in the rain with the imminent closing.

I read thru the migration tool that @sean did and it's amazing, but honestly it's a bit beyond my understanding.

The previous webfaction was setup for me, and I used it to manage 5 or 6 wordpress websites.

I'm quite ok building wordpress websites, but this whole tutorial above is beyond my skill set.

Is anyone in this forum available for hire to do this migration for me? I would really appreciate any help on this.

Thanks for all,

sean

svankuyk I read thru the migration tool that @sean did and it's amazing, but honestly it's a bit beyond my understanding.

I'm not the developer but I'll pass along your feedback, thanks 🙂

sean

svankuyk Is anyone in this forum available for hire to do this migration for me? I would really appreciate any help on this.

That's a great idea!

If you don't find someone to assist you then feel free to email support@opalstack.com and we'll lend a hand.

franckbrun

Hi All,

Excellent tools to migrate from Webfaction and excellent support.
This new adventure with OpalStack starts well.

EmoryBall

The tutorials assume a higher level of proficiency than some users might have. But googling 'how to run ssh on a mac' or 'how to edit config files in vim' were necessary.

I am running into an error when running the simulation mode for email migration: ERROR : Mailuser 'laura' error for field 'name': Mail User with this name already exists. There are two email addresses pointing to the same webfaction mailbox, could that be the source? If so, how does one resolve that? I need to have both emails.

johns

EmoryBall If the automated tools fail you have to exclude that object in the configuration file and move it manually using our mbsync documentation.

jseet

Was just trying to to the email-data migration in simulate and was running into the same issue as @rdelrossi a while back. Had a few other observations, though: when trying to set the password in the email dashboard, nothing would happen. I checked the browser console and the network POST call was returning a 400. And then when I tried to delete the mailbox, also a 400.

Then it occurred to me to check the Notice Log and use those passwords - now the simulation runs fine. I guess the remaining question is: is there an issue with the change password in the dashboard?

sean

jseet the dashboard task queue was backed up for a short period earlier today which I expect was the cause of the password change problem.

john-asl

sean Did the mailbox management interface change? I've checked the documentation and the knowledge base, as well as going through this entire thread, and yet I can still find no way to change the mailbox password in the Opalstack control panel "Email" interface.

Neither the "Mailbox" edit functionality nor the "Email address" edit functionality include it anywhere. There's no way to "select a mailbox" and no purple buttons (as described in documentation), as far as I can tell. What am I missing?

(This is now getting quite urgent for me, as not all of my imported email addresses have their mailbox passwords in the notices section, and the created_mailuser_passwords.ini file only includes ONE mailbox/password pair instead of dozens.)

sean

john-asl sorry about this, I missed that section when updating the new docs. Will update it ASAP.

You can update your mailbox password by clicking the key icon (in the right column) for that mailbox at https://my.opalstack.com/mail/.

john-asl

OK, actually I just realized that the notices log is paginated, so I was able to get mailbox passwords there.

I'd still really like to know how to change mailbox passwords, though!

john-asl

Ah, OK... The key icon does different things on different pages, so I wasn't expecting that!

Now I've got it.

naugmeister

I'm getting the following error whilst trying to use the email migration tool. Any advice is appreciated:

wfmigrate email ./config.ini --mode simulate

2021-09-13 20:10:42 : ERROR :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/wfmigrate", line 109, in <module>
migrator = import(module).Migrator(cfg, args)
File "/opt/app_migrators-1.12.3/wf_generic_email/migrator.py", line 16, in init
self.email_cfg = EmailCfg(cfg['email'])
File "/opt/app_migrators-1.12.3/lib/config_types/email_cfg.py", line 12, in init
self.include_subdomains = read_bool(data['include_subdomains'])
File "/opt/app_migrators-1.12.3/lib/config_types/email_cfg.py", line 2, in read_bool
assert config_bool.lower() in ['true', 'false']
AssertionError

naugmeister

Fixed the above by removing comments anything after e.g. (bool) and it ran just fine.

aerial1971

(1) In config; [webfaction]; server = web1 what is "web1", and does it need to be changed to some WebFaction reference?

(2) I'm planning to migrate all mail from all 6 of my domains. One of my domains uses email that's hosted by GMail (part of GSuite for our business), and Webfaction holds holds information for those 3rd party servers. Will this migrate over? Or best to setup manually.

(3) Some domains don't have email associated. Does it cause problems if I include them in a complete sweep of Webfaction in a single migration.

You can probably tell that we're piecing this together as we go (web not our forte) but have had great success migrating the sites themselves earlier today 🙂 Thank you. Hoping email will be equally good experience.

sean

aerial1971

change "web1" to your webfaction server's short name like "web502" or whatever.

Use the "dns" option on wfmigrate to migrate your custom DNS records (which control the external email setup at WF), eg:

mkdir -p ~/migrations/dns
cd ~/migrations/dns
cp /opt/app_migrators/wf_generic_dns/config-template.ini dns.ini
# edit dns.ini to configure the migration, then...
wfmigrate dns ./dns.ini --mode simulate
# and then if all goes well...
wfmigrate dns ./dns.ini --mode do

Nope, the migrator will see that you have no emails for those domains and skip them.

Hope this helps 🙂

paul

Hi there, thanks for the migrator script. I managed to import accounts from WF, but am now trying to migrate the mail data. What is not clear to me is this part of the configuration file:

[mailusers]
opal_mailuser_1 = opal_mailuser_1_password
opal_mailuser_2 = opal_mailuser_2_password
opal_mailuser_3 = opal_mailuser_3_password

Do I manually populate this? How do I know the passwords? Weren't they generated by the first part of the import script? Also, how do I associate the email addresses on WF with these opal_mailuser_X accounts? I tried finding more in-depth documentation but haven't found anything other than this forum post - if this is documented somewhere please point me in the direction and I will take it from there. Many thanks.

sean

paul that info is just a boilerplate example.

The first step, ie the "email" migration, created a file named created_mailuser_passwords.ini that has the info you need to drop into the email-data migration config. It will contain your actual mailbox names and the passwords that were generated here.

If you can't find that file then you can get all of the passwords from your dashboard log at: https://my.opalstack.com/logs/

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