Automx does not install correctly, Modoboa 2.2.0.

[Aegis8]

Hello,

First off, thank you for modoboa and the installer! Getting a mail host up, has never been easier.

Now to the problem, after a migration and several test set ups, I found that automx was not installed correctly. I had assumed that it was working, for example Mozilla Thunderbird and Nextcloud automatically retrieved the server details. Only when inspecting the automx and syslogs, did I see that Thunderbird checked automx, received an error and continued with its own discovery methods.

The fix below works for Thunderbird and Outlook, this I tested using Postman. No other changes were made. I can not test IOS.

** Edit: corrected the commit link.

Impacted versions

modoboa 2.2.0 and I assume previous versions that incorporated d547d37

• Distribution:
  Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-153-generic x86_64) and Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-86-generic x86_64)

• Database: PostgreSQL

Steps to reproduce

Run the modoboa installer.
In the automx virtualenv, run pip list
Or run the installer with --debug and check the output for automx

results in:

I traced the problem to the changes made in d547d37

I updated the following section in the /scripts/automx.py with '"sqlalchemy < 2.0"'. Note I'm not a dev nor a python expert :)

def _setup_venv(self): """Prepare a python virtualenv.""" python.setup_virtualenv( self.venv_path, sudo_user=self.user, python_version=3) packages = [ "future", "lxml", "ipaddress", '"sqlalchemy < 2.0"', "python-memcached", "python-dateutil", "configparser" ] if self.dbengine == "postgres": packages.append("psycopg2-binary")

Ran the installer again and all the modules were installed for automx.

[hornikmichal]

Hello,

The same issue occurs in Debian 11/12 with PostgreSQL/MySQL. By applying the fix mentioned by Aegis8, I was able to complete the full installation and get automx working properly. Without this fix, I needed to install packages in a virtual environment manually.

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