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Topic: Migrate iredmail to another vps server

==== REQUIRED BASIC INFO OF YOUR IREDMAIL SERVER ====
- iRedMail version: 1.7.3 MYSQL edition.
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: Ubuntu 24.04
- Web server: Nginx
====
Hello,
this is my first post!
just one question, I have managed to move all databases to 'new vps', and all is working receiving and sending email, lastly I want to move the file /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user,  which has this nformation in it: (I have omitted domain names)
# Add dkim_key here.

@dkim_signature_options_bysender_maps = ({
    # 'd' defaults to a domain of an author/sender address,
    # 's' defaults to whatever selector is offered by a matching key

    # Per-domain dkim key
    #"domain.com"  => { d => "domain.com", a => 'rsa-sha256', ttl => 10*24*3600 },
    # catch-all (one dkim key for all domains)
    '.' => {d => '********.co.uk',
            a => 'rsa-sha256',
            c => 'relaxed/simple',
            ttl => 30*24*3600 },
});

but when I move the actual file itself to the 'new vps' and delete the new vps 50-user file and place the 'old vps'  50-user file in it's place and restart all services:
#systemctl restart dovecot postfix nginx
#sudo systemctl restart amavis
#sudo systemctl reboot
I cannot receive or send email, can you help me please

Kindet Regards

J

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Re: Migrate iredmail to another vps server

jamesnelson82 wrote:

#systemctl restart dovecot postfix nginx
#sudo systemctl restart amavis
#sudo systemctl reboot
I cannot receive or send email

Any related error in Postfix log file (/var/log/maillog)?
Is "amavis" service running?

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Re: Migrate iredmail to another vps server

Hello ZhangHuangbin,
thank you for the reply here are the logs from var/log/maillog:

2025-12-13T04:06:06.054080+00:00 mail amavis[2527]: Using primary internal av scanner code for clamav-socket
2025-12-13T04:06:42.669585+00:00 mail roundcube: <s9l8o76j> Successful login for csr@imagodvds.su (ID: 6) from 94.197.128.17 in session s9l8o76jang0g13h
2025-12-13T04:06:50.218580+00:00 mail postfix/postscreen[2626]: CONNECT from [103.168.172.156]:34065 to [217.154.37.167]:25
2025-12-13T04:06:50.319712+00:00 mail postfix/postscreen[2626]: PASS OLD [103.168.172.156]:34065
2025-12-13T04:06:50.361989+00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[2629]: connect from fhigh-a5-smtp.messagingengine.com[103.168.172.156]
2025-12-13T04:06:50.445743+00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[2629]: discarding EHLO keywords: CHUNKING
2025-12-13T04:06:50.683414+00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[2629]: Anonymous TLS connection established from fhigh-a5-smtp.messagingengine.com[103.168.172.156]: TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256
2025-12-13T04:06:50.761466+00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[2629]: discarding EHLO keywords: CHUNKING
2025-12-13T04:06:50.909227+00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[2629]: 4dSt7G6SBjz25H8: client=fhigh-a5-smtp.messagingengine.com[103.168.172.156]
2025-12-13T04:06:50.991486+00:00 mail postfix/cleanup[2651]: 4dSt7G6SBjz25H8: message-id=<736cf22b-258e-4660-9e45-a71fcac5c63a@app.fastmail.com>
2025-12-13T04:06:50.992644+00:00 mail postfix/qmgr[1936]: 4dSt7G6SBjz25H8: from=<williamtravers@fastmail.co.uk>, size=4024, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
2025-12-13T04:06:50.992751+00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[2629]: disconnect from fhigh-a5-smtp.messagingengine.com[103.168.172.156] ehlo=2 starttls=1 mail=1 rcpt=1 data=1 quit=1 commands=7
2025-12-13T04:06:51.029034+00:00 mail amavis[2543]: (02543-01) (!)connect_to_sql: unable to connect to DSN 'DBI:mysql:database=amavisd;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306': Access denied for user 'amavisd'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
2025-12-13T04:06:51.029203+00:00 mail amavis[2543]: (02543-01) (!!)TROUBLE in process_request: connect_to_sql: unable to connect to any dataset at /usr/share/perl5/Amavis/Out/SQL/Connection.pm line 255.
2025-12-13T04:06:51.029223+00:00 mail amavis[2543]: (02543-01) (!)Requesting process rundown after fatal error
2025-12-13T04:06:51.038048+00:00 mail postfix/amavis/smtp[2656]: 4dSt7G6SBjz25H8: to=<csr@imagodvds.su>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.18, delays=0.13/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.2, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 421 4.3.2 Service shutting down, closing channel (in reply to RCPT TO command))
2025-12-13T04:08:21.838480+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd at mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis-2.13.0 (20230106), Unicode aware, LANG="C.UTF-8"
2025-12-13T04:08:21.838556+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: perl=5.038002, user=987, EUID: 987 (987);  group=(), EGID: 987 987 (987 987)
2025-12-13T04:08:21.943510+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: Net::Server: Group Not Defined.  Defaulting to EGID '987 987'
2025-12-13T04:08:21.943577+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: Net::Server: User Not Defined.  Defaulting to EUID '987'
2025-12-13T04:08:21.948279+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: No ext program for   .F, tried: unfreeze, freeze -d, melt, fcat
2025-12-13T04:08:21.948605+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: No ext program for   .zoo, tried: zoo, unzoo
2025-12-13T04:08:21.948783+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: No decoder for       .F   
2025-12-13T04:08:21.948811+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: No decoder for       .zoo
2025-12-13T04:08:21.948828+00:00 mail amavis[2889]: Using primary internal av scanner code for clamav-socket
2025-12-13T04:08:30.326083+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd at mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis-2.13.0 (20230106), Unicode aware, LANG="C.UTF-8"
2025-12-13T04:08:30.326180+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: perl=5.038002, user=987, EUID: 987 (987);  group=(), EGID: 987 987 (987 987)
2025-12-13T04:08:30.419873+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: Net::Server: Group Not Defined.  Defaulting to EGID '987 987'
2025-12-13T04:08:30.420046+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: Net::Server: User Not Defined.  Defaulting to EUID '987'
2025-12-13T04:08:30.424382+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: No ext program for   .F, tried: unfreeze, freeze -d, melt, fcat
2025-12-13T04:08:30.424661+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: No ext program for   .zoo, tried: zoo, unzoo
2025-12-13T04:08:30.424829+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: No decoder for       .F   
2025-12-13T04:08:30.424873+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: No decoder for       .zoo
2025-12-13T04:08:30.424890+00:00 mail amavis[2926]: Using primary internal av scanner code for clamav-socket
2025-12-13T04:09:36.083249+00:00 mail postfix/postscreen[3100]: CONNECT from [213.209.157.55]:61503 to [217.154.37.167]:25
2025-12-13T04:09:36.089466+00:00 mail postfix/dnsblog[3101]: addr 213.209.157.55 listed by domain zen.spamhaus.org as 127.0.0.3
2025-12-13T04:09:36.089541+00:00 mail postfix/dnsblog[3101]: addr 213.209.157.55 listed by domain zen.spamhaus.org as 127.0.0.4
2025-12-13T04:09:36.597782+00:00 mail postfix/postscreen[3100]: HANGUP after 0.51 from [213.209.157.55]:61503 in tests before SMTP handshake
2025-12-13T04:09:36.597869+00:00 mail postfix/postscreen[3100]: DISCONNECT [213.209.157.55]:61503
2025-12-13T04:10:11.188373+00:00 mail postfix/anvil[2633]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtpd:103.168.172.156) at Dec 13 04:06:50
2025-12-13T04:10:11.188575+00:00 mail postfix/anvil[2633]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtpd:103.168.172.156) at Dec 13 04:06:50
2025-12-13T04:10:11.188619+00:00 mail postfix/anvil[2633]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Dec 13 04:06:50

and from sudo journalctl -u amavis -n 50:

Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Stopping amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters...
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: amavis.service: Deactivated successfully.
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Stopped amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters.
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: amavis.service: Consumed 1.769s CPU time.
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Starting amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters...
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Started amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters.
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd at mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis-2.13.0 (20230106), Unicode aware, LANG="C.UTF-8"
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: perl=5.038002, user=987, EUID: 987 (987);  group=(), EGID: 987 987 (987 987)
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: Net::Server: Group Not Defined.  Defaulting to EGID '987 987'
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: Net::Server: User Not Defined.  Defaulting to EUID '987'
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: No ext program for   .F, tried: unfreeze, freeze -d, melt, fcat
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: No ext program for   .zoo, tried: zoo, unzoo
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: No decoder for       .F
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: No decoder for       .zoo
Dec 13 04:08:21 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2889]: Using primary internal av scanner code for clamav-socket
Dec 13 04:08:29 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Stopping amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters...
Dec 13 04:08:29 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: amavis.service: Deactivated successfully.
Dec 13 04:08:29 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Stopped amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters.
Dec 13 04:08:29 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: amavis.service: Consumed 1.546s CPU time.
Dec 13 04:08:29 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Starting amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters...
Dec 13 04:08:29 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk systemd[1]: Started amavis.service - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters.
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd at mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis-2.13.0 (20230106), Unicode aware, LANG="C.UTF-8"
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: perl=5.038002, user=987, EUID: 987 (987);  group=(), EGID: 987 987 (987 987)
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: Net::Server: Group Not Defined.  Defaulting to EGID '987 987'
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: Net::Server: User Not Defined.  Defaulting to EUID '987'
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: No ext program for   .F, tried: unfreeze, freeze -d, melt, fcat
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: No ext program for   .zoo, tried: zoo, unzoo
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: No decoder for       .F
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: No decoder for       .zoo
Dec 13 04:08:30 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2926]: Using primary internal av scanner code for clamav-socket
Dec 13 04:10:19 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2942]: (02942-01) (!)connect_to_sql: unable to connect to DSN 'DBI:mysql:database=amavisd;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306': Access denied for user 'amavisd'@'localhost' (using pa>
Dec 13 04:10:19 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2942]: (02942-01) (!!)TROUBLE in process_request: connect_to_sql: unable to connect to any dataset at /usr/share/perl5/Amavis/Out/SQL/Connection.pm line 255.
Dec 13 04:10:19 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2942]: (02942-01) (!)Requesting process rundown after fatal error

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Re: Migrate iredmail to another vps server

jamesnelson82 wrote:

Dec 13 04:10:19 mail.mailwhiz.co.uk amavis[2942]: (02942-01) (!)connect_to_sql: unable to connect to DSN 'DBI:mysql:database=amavisd;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306': Access denied for user 'amavisd'@'localhost' (using pa>

Is MySQL service running? If not, please restart it.
If it's running, please restart "amavis" service then try again.
Also, check the SQL username and password used in @storage_sql_dsn and @lookup_sql_dsn in /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user, make sure it's correct.

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Re: Migrate iredmail to another vps server

Hello ZhangHuangbin,
sorry for the late reply it us Christmas here in England smile you are correct it was the 'SQL username and password used in @storage_sql_dsn and @lookup_sql_dsn in /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user', thanks for you support, also the migration instructions on this site do not have this point in them

Kindest Regards

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Re: Migrate iredmail to another vps server

jamesnelson82 wrote:

the migration instructions on this site do not have this point in them

Which one are we talking about? I will update it shortly.