Can't Upgrade from v71a to v73, It's Stuck at v71a

Help with Setup/Upgrade
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NOTE: I have searched for similar topics or problems and nothing aligned so:

I have MIAB v71a and when I login via SSH and run sudo mailinabox it goes through all the upgrade steps successfully, but when I reboot AND/OR run sudo mailinabox it again it says I have MIAB v71a like so (over-and-over):

Primary Hostname: hostname.domain.com
Public IP Address: 000.000.000.000
Mail-in-a-Box Version: v71a

I can’t get v73 to be listed as my version of my server

screenfetch info:

root@hostname.domain.com
OS: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.15.0-163-generic
Uptime: 17m
Packages: 1030
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Disk: 7.3G / 99G
CPU: 2.2GHz
GPU: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio GPU (rev 01)
RAM: 768MiB / 1963MiB
  • I am not using Tmux in SSH, just SSH like normal (although I tried using Tmux with no difference).

Anyone else have difficulties updating from v71a or similar, or was anyone else stuck like this who knows a workaround?

2

Here is what my Status Page says:

System Status Checks
No reboot is necessary.
Disable New-Version Check
Summary: 90 ✓ OK, 1 ✖ Error, 0 ? Warning
System

✓ All system services are running.
✓ SSH disallows password-based login.
✓ System software is up to date.
✖ A new version of Mail-in-a-Box is available. \
You are running version v71a. The latest version \
is v73. For upgrade instructions, see \
https://mailinabox.email.
...
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What does it say when you try to upgrade?

4

I log in with ssh and run sudo mailinabox or just mailinabox. It runs through a normal upgrade which gives me:

Primary Hostname: subdomain.domain.com
Public IP Address: 000.000.000.000
Mail-in-a-Box Version: v71a

Updating system packages...
Installing system packages...
Initializing system random number generator...
Firewall is active and enabled on system startup
Synchronizing state of fail2ban.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable fail2ban
Installing nsd (DNS server)...
Installing Postfix (SMTP server)...
Installing Dovecot (IMAP server)...
Installing OpenDKIM/OpenDMARC...
Installing SpamAssassin...
Installing Nginx (web server)...
Installing Roundcube (webmail)...
Installing Nextcloud (contacts/calendar)...
Nextcloud is already latest version
Installing Z-Push (Exchange/ActiveSync server)...
Installing Mail-in-a-Box system management daemon...
Installing Munin (system monitoring)...
updated DNS: OpenDKIM configuration

-----------------------------------------------

Your Mail-in-a-Box is running.
Please log in to the control panel for further instructions at:
https://subdomain.domain.com/admin
If you have a DNS problem put the box's IP address in the URL
(https://000.000.000.000/admin) but then check the TLS fingerprint:
RE:AL:YL:ON:GF:IN:GE:RP:RI:NT

I get this every time, but yet it never actually upgrades to v73. It always still is stuck as v71a.

If I rerun or reboot then rerun the sudo mailinabox it’ll say ‘Mail-in-a-Box Version: v71a’ like above.

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OK Update and Note-to-My-Future-Self:

I guess I misunderstand the purpose of:
sudo mailinabox

as when I used that, it would not upgrade from v71a to v73.

However when I did the original:
curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash

it finally proceeded to upgrade just fine.

Thanks,
#solved

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