18.04 EOL soon. Is it a good idea to provision mailinabox now

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Not sure I chose the right category really. Its a more general question before setup.

I have a multi tenanted exchange setup I am retiring ASAP. Its no longer commercially used but has a few domains/mailboxes still on it that I host for friends and family.

This project seems ideal to migrate them to first. I can host the VM myself in a DC so the cost will be negligible.

However, I’m looking at longevity and I see that Ubunto 18.04 us EOL in 7 months. I see MIAB only runs on 18.04. I don’t want to have to mess about migrating again (unless there will be a simple tool for this maybe?)

Are there plans to support running on Ubuntu 22, or another OS with a much longer EOL?

If I did build on 18.04 now I presume it would be a manual job to migrate once 22 is supported? I presume support is planned before April 2023?

TIA

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A move to 22.04LTS is actively being worked on; see here. I believe the expected upgrade path will be a backup and restore to a new VM image. If you install the current MIAB on 18.04 and don’t customise, I expect the move will turn out to be quite straightforward.

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How can I install the 22.04LTS version already? It seems that it is ready.

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The current release is .57a, which is 18.04. When the current release is for 22.04, that will be the current release. Until then, you will be a tester, at this stage I think late alpha tester.

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It is ready when it is released.

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