More power to Mail-in-a-box (fork showcase)

v60.4 (Full Release Notes)

Haven’t posted updates in a while, but there are some here. And a very important bugfix.

:warning: :exclamation: If you’re running Power Mail-in-a-Box v60.0, v60.1, v60.2 or v60.3, please upgrade ASAP - there’s a sneaky yet annoying bug that could render the box unable to pretty much receive or send mail. Read below for more info.

  • If you’re running Mail-in-a-Box v60.1 (the original project), you probably should wait until they release a patch of their own. Otherwise, if you want to migrate over, I recommend testing it out in a separate box since it looks like the migration process isn’t straightforward. See this thread for more info.

:information_source: If you’re already unable to do either of these things, upgrading is enough to fix the problem. No further action needed.

:bomb: A pretty sneaky yet nasty and devastating bug

If you or any of your users use it’s password changing plugin to - well, change their password - you’ll eventually find out that:

  1. You’ll be unable to send mail.
  2. You’ll be unable to receive mail.
  3. Re-running the setup, rebooting, etc. that will not solve the problem.

This was also reported in several threads in this forum.

You can read more here.

:desktop_computer: Command-line conveniences

If you’re a fan of using the command line for admin tasks, things just got a tiny bit easier for you!

You can now use the alias miabadm instead of having to cd into the mailinabox directory and doing management/cli.py. Functionality remains otherwise the same.

Usage Example:

sudo miabadmn user admins
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