TIPS RaspPi Incredible PBX -> worth the move to 2022?

[mprhilL]

I'm finishing up (hopefully) an install of Incredible PBX on a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB). I have it mostly working (make and receive calls, intercom, sendmail via SendGrid) and it boots from an external drive. I'm now working on clearing the errors/warnings on the dashboard. (system alert emails are not going out; php thinks I don't have enough variables declared but the PHP config says I do, I've deleted the warning and it came back)

I updated it to the 2021 version:

Incredible PBX 2021 15.0.23.12 'Dashboard'

Is it worth moving to the 2022 version?
It sounds like it would mean starting over, tho maybe I could import a backup? I can reimport my extensions, having found the bulk access module.

Thanks.

 

[kenn10]

All you need is a FreePBX backup and you can reload it on the new system. No need for the bulk import stuff. You can import a FreePBX 15 backup into FreePBX 16 with ease. If you update all your modules on FreePBX 15 then do the FreePBX backup, that backup cleanly imports into FreePBX 16.

 

[kenn10]

The email alert on the dashboard will stay there since it is looking for sendmail. If your sendgrid works, ignore the warning. No real reason to move to IncrediblePBX 2022 unless you just want to stay on the bleeding edge.

 

[mprhilL]

The email alert on the dashboard will stay there since it is looking for sendmail. If your sendgrid works, ignore the warning. No real reason to move to IncrediblePBX 2022 unless you just want to stay on the bleeding edge.

Thanks. That's helpful about 2022.

The mail alert is the mail queue: there's 40 messages waiting to go out. When I looked at the queue using ssh and mailq, they are mostly from [email protected] or fail2ban.
EG:

E1F694C431A*     703 Mon May 30 00:00:01  [email protected]
                                         [email protected]

ACB5A4C4187*    3848 Sun Jun 19 01:21:22  MAILER-DAEMON
                                         asterisk@incrediblepbx

073704C47D6*     453 Tue Jun 21 16:02:37  [email protected]
                                         [email protected]

My assumption is that the problem is that sendgrid is rejecting those addresses, but I've not found where to change them.

 

[kenn10]

If you switch from Sendmail to Postfix, the /var/spool/mqueue directory can be deleted. You might try chmod 777 mqueue also.

Sendgrid only allows email from the address you set up when you set up Sendgrid. Assuming you used Postfix with Sendgrid, you need to modify the generic file to alias all those things to the email address you set up for Sendgrid. See this https://www.voip-info.org/forum/threads/incredible-pbx-smarthost.26251/page-2#post-163810

In that thread, I also have a Debian friendly bash script that handles a lot of the work for you.

 

[mprhilL]

I did the generic file thing, and that cleared the mail queue. I would like them delivered somewhere other than the server, so I can know what's going on.

 

[kenn10]

I would like them delivered somewhere other than the server, so I can know what's going on.

I haven't looked into it lately, but there are ways to forward stuff destined for the root user to another email address.

 

[wardmundy]

Edit /etc/aliases and enter your email and uncomment root: marc as root:[email protected]. Save file and type: newaliases to activate.