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jcoffey-dev 12ec0c3fd4 Rename the module to the Coffey-Labs organisation
The repositories moved off LINUXexpert-org. Here that is not a
documentation change: the old organisation was the module path, so it is
declared in go.mod and repeated in every internal import.

Leaving it would have been worse than a stale link. GitHub redirects the
repository, but a go.mod whose module line disagrees with the path it was
fetched from is an error rather than a redirect, so `go get` on the new
address would have failed against the old declaration.

go.mod, 34 files of imports, and the repository links in README and
ARCHITECTURE. go mod tidy leaves go.sum untouched -- no dependency moved,
only our own path.
2026-08-30 15:24:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 77e80cb9f2 Change the copyright holder to Coffey Labs
119 SPDX-FileCopyrightText headers and the README's licence line.

The distinction that matters here: LINUXexpert-org appears in this repository
in two completely different roles. As a copyright holder in the SPDX headers,
which is what changes, and as the GitHub organisation in the module path and 64
import statements, which does not -- the repository still lives at
github.com/LINUXexpert-org/stalwart-migrator, and rewriting that would not be a
licence change, it would break the build.

Both replacements are anchored to their copyright forms, so an import path
cannot match either. Import count is 64 before and after, and go.mod is
untouched.

LICENSE untouched: the FSF's copyright on the GPL text and the "<name of
author>" placeholders are not ours to edit.

go vet, go build and go test all clean.
2026-08-30 01:28:23 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 56152ed7de Ask the container what it is running
Preflight's first check ran `--version` on --binary. A container-only host
has no such file, so the check failed, and because it is first, nothing
downstream ever ran — including every container check that exists to
decide whether that container can be migrated at all. The container path
was unreachable on exactly the hosts it is for.

A host that happens to have a binary is the worse case, not the better
one: a stray /usr/local/bin/stalwart from an older install answers
confidently with a version nothing is running, and the whole migration
plan is derived from that number.

The source version now comes from running the image the container is on,
by ID rather than by the tag it was started from, using the same command
and the same fallback stage already uses for the target image — the two
have to agree about what a Stalwart image reports or the source and
target could be read by different rules. Verified against a real
stalwartlabs/stalwart image, not only the fake.

Deployment kind is detected once and shared, rather than asked again by
the check that reports it. Two answers for one run is not a thing this
should be able to produce.

The same reasoning retires preserve-binary on a container: there is
nothing on this host to move aside, and the equivalent is already
guaranteed, since cutover renames the old container and never prunes the
old image. Renaming a stray binary would have preserved something nothing
was running.
2026-08-29 17:56:32 -07:00
jcoffey-dev e96e72bf79 Tell what a container inherits from what it overrides
Checked against a real stalwartlabs/stalwart image, `docker inspect` on an
ordinary container reports User "stalwart", Entrypoint
["/usr/local/bin/stalwart"] and Cmd ["--config",
"/etc/stalwart/config.json"] — all three inherited, none of them given.

Two things followed from reading those as the operator's.

A container user was listed as configuration a recreate would drop, so
every container off the official image was refused as unrecreatable. That
refusal lived in cutover, downstream of the stop, the settings conversion
and the store migration: it arrived with mail down and data already
moved, which is the failure issue #1 was filed for. Each of the three is
now compared against `docker image inspect` of the image the container is
on. Inherited values are left to the new image, whose own defaults are
the ones that go with it. Overrides are carried: --user, --entrypoint,
and the rest of an entrypoint as leading argv. Cmd and Entrypoint were
not being read at all, so an overridden one was silently dropped — the
exact loss the unsupported list exists to prevent.

The recreatability question also moved into preflight, while the server
is still running. Cutover asks it again, since the two are separated by
the whole migration, but only one of them can refuse without cost.

The other half: the recreated container is now started with `--config`
pointing at the migrated config in the data volume. Left to the image's
default command it came up on /etc/stalwart/config.json — a different
volume, holding whatever the old version left there — so cutover would
have produced a running server with nothing to do with the migration that
preceded it. An overridden command and that --config are the same argv
and cannot be merged honestly, so a container with one is refused and
told why.

The config is also chowned to whatever owns the data directory, before
the recovery cycle opens it. The image runs as uid 2000 and this tool
writes as root; §4.8 is the standing reminder that byte-perfect and
unreadable is a way to report success.

Found while checking @kaya-eu's field report in #1 against a real image.
Their three manual migrations are where the config step comes from.
2026-08-29 17:45:23 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 272439cf2a Wire the container path up, behind a flag that says what it is
Everything the container migration needs has landed a piece at a time and
nothing called any of it. `run` now does: stage pulls and verifies an image
instead of downloading a binary, the recovery cycle launches a throwaway
container against the live container's own mounts, and cutover recreates it.
Preflight's blanket refusal of docker goes with it -- what still refuses is
specific to a container rather than to containers, which is compose and
data that is not on a volume.

It refuses without --container-path-unproven, and that flag is the honest
part of this change. Every test drives a fake docker. That proves the right
commands are assembled and proves nothing about whether a real image reads
the config it is handed -- which is the exact limit ARCHITECTURE.md section
4.8 records about the rollback code that was deleted for being tested only
against fakes. A doc note seemed too quiet for a tool that stops a mail
server, so it is a flag nobody reaches without being told.

The converted config reaches the container through the data volume. It is
written under the host side of whichever mount covers --data-dir and named
on the container side, because cutover recreates a container with the mounts
it had and cannot invent a new one for a config file. --data-dir therefore
names the path inside the container, which preflight already says when it
matches no mount.

PatchPaths stays unused, deliberately. Its documented purpose is pointing a
rehearsal at a sandbox; a real container's dumped settings already carry
container-side paths, because they come from the live server rather than
from a file on this host.

The preflight test that asserted docker was refused outright now asserts
the replacement rather than being deleted -- "docker is allowed through
here" is the thing that would be wrong to regress. Its fixture had to make
--data-dir both a real host directory and one the fake container mounts,
since disk-space stats it and container-data-volume wants it covered.

README gains the container section and, at the top, the note that this is
ihasmail's companion.
2026-08-28 17:42:31 -07:00
jcoffey-dev ad7c2d5135 Cut over a container, or refuse to for a reason
A container cannot be edited in place the way a unit file can, so cutting
one over means rebuilding it. That makes silent loss the default failure:
a container recreated without its capabilities, its custom network or its
device mappings starts cleanly and is quietly not the server it was.

Section 4.5 already answers this for a unit file -- it rewrites in place
rather than regenerating, because a generated unit would drop hardening
options this tool has no business having an opinion about, and it refuses
to edit a line it only partly understands. The same rule applies here,
where the whole definition has to be rebuilt: the parts this understands
are carried across, and a container using anything else is refused by name
rather than rebuilt without it. The list of what it looks for is
conservative and not exhaustive, which is the safe direction: docker's
HostConfig has far more fields, and one this does not know about is a
reason not to be recreating that container at all.

The old container is renamed, not removed, and nothing here prunes the old
image. Together they are the container's manual restore path -- one command
starts the previous container again -- which is as close to section 4.2's
preserved binary as a container gets. The inspect output is preserved as an
artifact before anything is replaced, for the reason the unit file is: an
operator putting a machine back by hand should not also be reconstructing
the definition from memory.

Recovery-mode variables are stripped from the recreated container's
environment. Leaving STALWART_RECOVERY_MODE set would recovery-boot on
every restart, which is the same footgun the unit rewrite exists to
prevent.

Run now branches, with the health check and quota recalculation shared:
those ask the same question whatever started the server. The binary path
moved inside an else and is otherwise untouched -- no existing test needed
editing, which is the evidence for that.

The container path is opt-in through Options.Container, so a Docker
deployment without it is still refused exactly as before. Nothing calls it
yet; wiring `run` up and lifting preflight's refusal is what remains of #3,
and ARCHITECTURE.md says so in both places it previously said Docker was
refused outright.
2026-08-28 17:30:33 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0a6b3ad173 Stage a container image the way a binary is staged
The container deployment's answer to downloading a release: pull the image
the operator named, then ask it what it is. That last part is the point of
the phase, exactly as it is for a binary - the tag, the registry and the
repository name are all assumptions about someone else's publishing
process, and the image's own answer is the only thing that settles what
arrived.

The image is never derived from the running container by swapping its tag.
That derivation is wrong for a digest-pinned image, wrong for a mirror and
wrong for a fork, and being wrong here means pulling the wrong software
into a mail server. It is named in full or the phase refuses.

What comes back is the image's ID rather than the tag it arrived under. A
tag can move between staging and cutover -- that is the whole reason latest
is a hazard -- and running the tag later would run something other than
what was verified here.

VersionFromOutput is exported from preflight so both paths parse a version
identically. Two copies of that regex could disagree about what they
staged, which is a difference nobody would look for.

One caveat recorded rather than hidden: asking an image its version means
running it with --version, which assumes its entrypoint is the server and
passes flags through. That has not been confirmed against a published
Stalwart image, there being none to hand. If the assumption is wrong this
fails loudly with the image's own output rather than staging something
unverified, and the fallback tries the binary by name before giving up.

SkipPull is for a host that loaded the image from a tarball, where a pull
cannot work and its failure would say nothing useful.
2026-08-28 17:20:53 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 6e7a05e478 Tell a container operator what stands in the way
Preflight refuses a container, and until now that was all it said. The two
things that actually decide whether one could be migrated at all were never
looked at, so an operator was refused without being told what to fix or what
a manual migration would involve.

It now inspects the container and reports three things. What image it is
running, tag and digest kept apart because a moved tag makes them disagree
and only one of them says what is really there. Whether compose manages it,
which matters beyond this tool's current refusal: recreating a
compose-managed container out from under compose leaves the container and
the compose file disagreeing about what is deployed, and the next
`compose up` reverts the migration. And whether the data is on a volume at
all -- a container keeping it in its own writable layer loses it when the
container is replaced, and replacing the container is what migrating it
means, so that one is fatal in a way no later phase could recover from.

All three are advisory under rehearse, on the same reasoning that already
made the deployment check advisory there: rehearse never stops or recreates
anything, and an operator doing this by hand needs these facts more than an
automated run does.

Preflight stays read-only. Preserving the container definition as an
artifact belongs with the phase that replaces it, so it goes with cutover
rather than here.

One limitation this surfaced and does not fix: --data-dir naming a path
inside the container breaks the host-side disk-space check, which stats it
locally. Path translation is the next piece of work; the data-volume check
says so when the path matches no mount.
2026-08-28 16:50:09 -07:00
jcoffey-dev edd8279743 Refuse a Docker deployment before stopping anything
Cutover already refused a container -- recreating one from a new image is
not swapping a binary and rewriting a unit, and this tool does not automate
it -- but it refused from cutover.Run, which run.go calls at line 324. The
service is stopped at line 243. So the sequence on a container was: stop
Stalwart, convert the settings, then discover the deployment cannot be cut
over, return the error, and exit with mail still down. Reported as #1.

The deployment kind is known in preflight, before anything has been touched,
and that is now where it is acted on: docker is a blocking check. rehearse
keeps working -- it never stops the service or cuts over, and telling an
operator what the migration involves is most useful precisely when the tool
cannot do it for them -- so it sets DeploymentCheckAdvisory, alongside the
ToolCheckAdvisory it already set for the same reason.

The second half is not docker's alone. Every return between the stop and the
end of cutover returned with the service down; a failed settings conversion
would have done the same to a systemd host. run now registers a restart on
the way out, after the stop rather than before, so it only ever starts
something this tool stopped. It does not claim to have recovered the
migration -- a part-migrated store still needs --resume or the operator's
recovery point -- it removes the narrower failure of exiting on a
foreseeable error while the server it stopped stays stopped.
2026-08-28 16:33:58 -07:00
jcoffey-dev ce0e237051 Refuse a fallback-admin at preflight, not after the migration finishes
A dress rehearsal on a clone of production migrated cleanly and then failed
all three post-cutover steps with 401: the health check, the quota rebuild,
and the content comparison. The account was `admin` - a v0.15
[authentication.fallback-admin], not a directory account. v0.16 keeps its
configuration in the store, so the block defining it does not survive, and
the credential stops working the instant the migration completes.

Every check passed beforehand, because on v0.15 that account authenticates
perfectly well. The README has said to use a named account for a while; the
tool now says it too, while nothing has been touched and changing it costs
one flag.

The migration itself is unaffected - it succeeds either way. What is lost is
the ability to verify it afterwards, which is the part worth having.
2026-08-24 15:51:25 -07:00
jcoffey-dev b786e89b42 Take the target version from the binary when there is no route out
preflight asked the GitHub release API which version it was upgrading to,
so a host with no internet failed there even with the target binary already
on disk - and `run` never passed its own --target-binary down to preflight,
so supplying one did not help. Read the version from the binary instead
when one is given, and fail if it is not the version the run targets.

Found by the first preflight against the production clone, which is
deliberately cut off from the network.
2026-08-24 15:27:20 -07:00
jcoffey-dev e955a41d58 Fix the domain/tenant mismatch that failed the second live migration
The second production attempt failed during recovery-mode apply, with the
mail server already stopped and the store already at schema v6:

    create Account restore-13: invalidForeignKey | Object id: Domain#d

v0.16 requires a tenant-scoped Account to sit on a Domain owned by that
same tenant, for its primary domain and for every alias. v0.15 imposed no
such rule, and migrate_v016.py carries the two facts over independently:
_build_domains sets a domain's memberTenantId only for domains declared as
their own `domain` principal with a `tenant`, while _build_user sets the
account's from the account's own record. A domain that exists only inside
an email address is inferred, gets no tenant, and every tenant-scoped
account using it is then rejected.

Established by reproduction rather than inference: a synthetic v0.15
principal dump, run through the unpatched upstream converter and applied to
a real 0.16.14 in recovery mode, reproduces the error character for
character - the `#d` is the server's own object id for the offending
domain, not a plan client-id. The same harness establishes which directions
are constrained: a tenant-scoped account on a tenant-less domain or on
another tenant's domain is rejected; a global account on a tenant-owned
domain is accepted.

  - applyplan.ReconcileDomainTenants repairs the plan between convert and
    apply. Where a tenant-less domain is used only by accounts of one
    tenant, the domain adopts that tenant - the sole assignment that both
    applies and keeps every account. Where accounts genuinely disagree it
    changes nothing and reports why, because forcing such a plan through
    would mean dropping mailboxes.
  - stalwartapi.FetchTenantLayout maps tenant membership over the 0.15 REST
    API and predicts the outcome with the same rule the server enforces, so
    preflight either warns about the domains that will adopt a tenant or
    fails - while the service is still running.
  - The plan is parsed generically rather than through the typed Operation.
    A real export.json mixes shapes: `create` maps a client-id to an object,
    `update` carries a flat one. The typed form failed on the first `update`
    line, found by running against actual converter output. Numbers decode
    as json.Number so a 10 GiB quota is not rewritten as 1.073741824e+10.

Corrects the record: the previous commit claimed the converter emits every
Account with `tenantId: null` and made preflight refuse every multi-tenant
install on that basis. The field is memberTenantId, the converter does
populate it, and the export had been inspected for a key no version of the
script ever writes. The refusal is now narrowed to what v0.16 genuinely
cannot represent.

The same fix has been prepared for migrate_v016.py upstream. The tool
downloads that script rather than vendoring it, so the repair stays here
until a released version carries it, and is a no-op on a consistent plan.
2026-08-24 00:27:26 -07:00
jcoffey-dev c29140b6b3 Refuse multi-tenant installs in preflight, not after the service is stopped
A second live attempt failed in the same shape as the first: preflight
clean, settings dumped and converted, then a failure during recovery-mode
migration with the mail server already stopped.

    created Tenant (1)
    created Domain (9)
    create Account restore-13: invalidForeignKey | Object id: Domain#d

migrate_v016.py carries the Tenant and the Domains but emits every Account
with a null tenantId, so the account references a tenant-owned domain while
belonging to no tenant and the foreign key is rejected. That is Stalwart's
converter and there is nothing this tool can do about it: a multi-tenant
install has to be migrated by hand until the converter handles tenants.

What this tool got wrong was the timing. Tenant principals are one API call
away and were readable the entire time the server was running. Preflight now
queries them and fails before anything is touched, with an explanation of
exactly what would otherwise fail and when.

This is the same lesson as the stalwart-cli check: knowable in advance,
discovered after a production mail server had been stopped, twice. Any
dependency of the conversion belongs in preflight, not in the phase that
consumes it.

Also makes the external-tool checks advisory during `rehearse`, which never
invokes stalwart-cli - refusing to run read-only reconnaissance because the
operator lacks a tool that reconnaissance would tell them to get was
backwards.
2026-08-23 23:51:43 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 9faa21f4f1 Fix the three defects that cost a production restore
A live migration on 2026-08-24 stopped a production mail server and then
discovered the host's stalwart-cli was 0.13.4 - present, but from when the
CLI shipped with the server, with no `apply` command. The migration needs
v1.0.2+ from the separately-versioned stalwartlabs/cli repository.

Recovery was closed in both directions. v0.16's recovery-mode boot had
already bumped the store schema to v6, so the 0.15.5 binary refused to
reopen it ("expected 5 or below, found 6"). Going forward needed
export.json, which this tool's own failure path had deleted - and
regenerating it required a settings dump from a live v0.15 instance that
could no longer start. The operator restored a day-old snapshot and lost a
day of mail across nine domains.

Three fixes:

1. preflight.CheckExternalTools verifies stalwart-cli exists and is v1.0.2
   or later, and that python3 runs - before anything is touched. Every fact
   needed to prevent this was available in under a second from a stopped
   state. Skipped for a patch upgrade, which invokes neither tool.

2. A failed run no longer deletes its work directory. Cleaning up on every
   exit path was right for a sandboxed rehearsal and catastrophic here:
   once the service is stopped the settings dump cannot be regenerated, so
   deleting it removes the only way forward. The failure now prints the
   resume command instead.

3. `run --resume <id>` continues an interrupted run. The checkpoint
   machinery existed but never engaged, because run created a new run every
   invocation - so a retry re-ran preflight against a binary already moved
   aside, and failed. Completed steps are skipped from the checkpoint.

Proven against a VM built to match the failure: stalwart-cli 0.15.5,
accounts and mail seeded.

  * preflight refused, service still active, mail still accepted
  * a stub CLI passing --version and failing apply left the run stopped
    with all eight inputs intact and the resume command printed
  * --resume carried it to a clean finish: five seconds of downtime,
    listeners regenerated, admin role restored, quotas rebuilt

That failure-path test is the one that should have run before production.
Every earlier test had stalwart-cli installed from the start, and the one
failure I did exercise happened to leave its artifacts behind.
2026-08-23 23:20:47 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 5a4c175042 Implement run: the migration pipeline, end to end
The phases have all existed for a while; nothing chained them. The order
here is the one arrived at by performing this migration by hand against a
clone of production before writing it down:

    preflight -> stage -> dump -> preserve binary -> STOP ->
    convert -> supplement -> recovery-mode migration -> cutover -> START

The dump runs before the stop because it reads settings over the admin API,
and a stopped server has no admin API. Everything from the stop to the end
of cutover is downtime.

internal/stage fills the last missing phase (4.3): resolve the release,
take the x86_64 linux-gnu server build and refuse to substitute another,
verify a pinned checksum if one was given, extract the binary - refusing
any archive entry that isn't a regular file, since a tarball is untrusted
input - and confirm the result reports the version its tag claimed.
Everything upstream of that last check is an assumption about someone
else's release process.

Two gates, separate on purpose. --yes is about intent. --recovery-point-
confirmed is a claim about the world: this tool cannot undo a migration
(4.8) and cannot check whether a snapshot exists, so a run that proceeded
without the operator asserting one would be proceeding on a hope.

Verified end to end against a real Stalwart 0.15.5 with email-style account
names, a named admin account, and seeded mail:

    MIGRATION COMPLETE. Mail was down for 6s.

Every cutover step green, including recalculate-quotas ("rebuilt disk
quotas for 2 account(s)") - the first time the x:Task wire format inferred
from Stalwart's schema reference has actually been exercised. It works,
now that endpoint discovery and role restoration make it reachable. After
the migration the named admin still administers, alice logs in with
unchanged credentials to the same four messages, and new SMTP delivery is
accepted.

Both refusal gates were tested, as was the failure path: an apply that
fails leaves the run stopped with the store part-migrated, and the error
says to restore the recovery point rather than restart the old version
against it.
2026-08-23 22:49:21 -07:00
jcoffey-dev a69f0bbff1 Fix two preflight defects a live production rehearsal found
Ran the rehearsal read-only against a live production instance. It
completed, and two preflight checks were wrong in ways a test instance
could not have shown.

1. Store-backend detection missed the config entirely. A config generated
   by `stalwart --init` declares `type = "rocksdb"` inside a
   `[store.rocksdb]` section, which is what every test fixture here used.
   The production config has no section headers at all and declares
   `store.rocksdb.type = "rocksdb"` flat. Detection only matched a bare
   `type` key, so it reported "no known store backend type found in config"
   and left topology.store_backend empty.

   That mattered more than a warning suggests: backup.Run treated an
   unrecognized backend as a *skip*, so a real run would have continued
   with no filesystem or database backup at all - the single artifact that
   phase exists to produce, quietly absent. Flat dotted keys are now
   detected, and an unrecognized backend is a hard failure rather than a
   skip.

2. The cluster warning didn't say where it matched. It fires on any
   occurrence of "cluster" anywhere in the config, which is the correct
   bias - a missed cluster corrupts a shared store - but on the production
   config the only match was inside the value of an unrelated setting,
   leaving a whole config to search to establish that. It now names the
   location and distinguishes a match in the setting name from one in its
   value.

Both verified against the real config: store-backend now reports
"rocksdb (store.rocksdb)", and the cluster warning names the setting,
making a false positive dismissible at a glance.

No production data is in this commit: the fixtures use example.com and the
flat-key shape only. Coverage numbers from that run matched the earlier
scrubbed-corpus measurement exactly.
2026-08-23 21:58:53 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 1684c88877 Resolve v0.16 domain ids to names before comparing directories
x:Account.domainId is an internal id on v0.16 ("b"), not a domain name. A
pre-migration snapshot taken from a v0.15 instance records names
("smoke.test"), so the post-migration directory comparison compared ids
against names and would have reported every domain as having vanished -
a false alarm on the check whose whole job is proving nothing was lost.

The client now resolves them with x:Domain/query + x:Domain/get in a single
request, using a JMAP back-reference (RFC 8620 3.7). Confirmed against a
live 0.16.14 before being written:

    ["x:Domain/get", {"list":[{"name":"smoke.test","id":"b"}]}, "g"]

An id that can't be resolved is kept as-is - a domain that can't be named is
still a domain that exists - but a failure of the resolution call itself is
an error rather than a silent fallback, since quietly comparing ids against
names is precisely the bug being fixed.

Verified against the live migrated instance: the snapshot that reported
domains=[b] now reports domains=[smoke.test], matching what the
pre-migration snapshot recorded.
2026-08-23 21:45:55 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 3e155fa42c Fix three defects a full VM migration exposed
Ran a complete 0.15.5 -> 0.16.14 migration of the smoke VM, driving the
phases in the order the real pipeline will. It worked - all mail intact and
readable afterwards, all ten listeners up, cutover executed for the first
time ever and checkpoint resume exercised - and it exposed three defects.

1. The converted config was installed root-owned while the service runs as
   its own user. Stalwart crash-looped 28 times on "Failed to read data
   store settings: Permission denied", minutes after the mistake and
   nowhere near it. This is the same ownership trap that retired the
   rollback implementation, in a new place: writing files as root is the
   natural thing for a tool running as root to do, and it is wrong every
   time the service is not root.

   Cutover now installs the config itself, copying ownership and mode from
   the config being replaced.

2. v0.16.14 does not serve /api - the endpoint stalwartapi assumed.
   Confirmed against a fully migrated, fully configured, serving instance
   rather than a sandbox: /api, /api/principal and /jmap/ all 404. The JMAP
   endpoint is the one the session document advertises, which is what RFC
   8620 discovery is for.

   The client now discovers it, re-basing the advertised path onto the
   operator's host: a real instance advertises its canonical public URL
   ("https://mail.smoke.test/jmap/") which frequently isn't reachable from
   where this tool runs. The session is authoritative about the path; the
   operator is authoritative about the host.

3. Dispatching on the urn:stalwart:jmap capability was wrong, because
   NEITHER version advertises it - not 0.15.5, and not a fully migrated
   0.16.14. That sent 0.16 instances down the 0.15 REST path where every
   call 404s. The client probes what the instance actually serves instead.
   Less elegant than a declared capability, with the advantage of being
   true.

Also: a JMAP "forbidden" now explains itself. An account holding the admin
role before the migration was refused x:Account/query afterwards, and a
bare "forbidden" gives an operator nowhere to start. Whether the role
failed to carry or v0.16 wants different permissions was not isolated, and
that question is recorded as open - it gates quota recalculation and any
post-migration validation.

Verified against both live instances: the 0.15.5 reports 3 accounts and its
domain over REST, and the migrated 0.16.14 routes to JMAP, finds the right
endpoint, and returns the explained refusal.
2026-08-23 21:32:30 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 4568f9abbf Capture the pre-migration snapshot from 0.15.x, and stop claiming counts match when none were compared
Found by running preflight against a real Stalwart 0.15.5 in a VM. Two
defects, the second worse than the first.

1. AccountSnapshot could not read the version this tool migrates FROM.
   0.15.5 advertises no urn:stalwart:jmap capability and POST /api returns
   404 - the JMAP management API and x:Account are 0.16 features. 0.15.x
   exposes a REST API at GET /api/principal instead. So preflight's
   account-snapshot check warned and moved on, and every run against a real
   source instance had no "before" data at all.

   AccountSnapshot now dispatches on the capability the session document
   advertises - a positive signal, not an inference from a failed call -
   and internal/stalwartapi/principal.go implements the 0.15.x REST path,
   including its 1-based page/limit pagination so an install larger than
   one page isn't silently truncated.

2. With no "before" counts, the content-integrity comparison iterated an
   empty map, checked nothing, and reported "all message counts match".
   That is the strongest claim this tool makes - ARCHITECTURE 4.7 calls it
   the actual no-data-loss guarantee - made vacuously, and it would have
   passed on a migration that lost every message.

   The comparison now derives its account set from whatever the source
   could report, verifies every account and domain survived either way, and
   carries MessageCountsCompared so the report says plainly "MESSAGE COUNTS
   NOT COMPARED ... no-data-loss is NOT verified here" rather than implying
   otherwise.

What can and cannot be checked across the 0.15/0.16 boundary, now that a
real server has answered: 0.15.x has no per-mailbox message count at any
endpoint, and the impersonation login 0.16 offers returns 401 there, so
before/after message counts are impossible for the boundary migration this
tool exists for. Both versions do report per-account used quota (usedQuota
in 0.15's REST list, usedDiskQuota on 0.16's x:Account), so that is
captured on both sides. It is recorded and reported, not asserted on:
4.5 notes the 0.16 migration resets quotas to zero pending recalculation,
so comparing those bytes across the boundary would be a false alarm
generator.

Test servers across preflight, validate and stalwartapi now advertise
urn:stalwart:jmap, since they stand in for 0.16 instances and that
capability is what says so.

Verified end to end against the smoke VM: all nine preflight checks pass,
and the checkpoint records 2 accounts, 1 domain and per-account used quota
where it previously recorded nothing.
2026-08-23 18:51:19 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 4b0bec8956 Add SPDX headers to every Go file
GPLv3's "How to Apply These Terms" asks for a notice in each source file;
this is the modern two-line SPDX form of it rather than the full paragraph.
82 files, including tests.

The blank line after the header is load-bearing. In Go a comment block
immediately preceding `package X` becomes the package doc comment, so
without the separator the SPDX lines would be absorbed into the doc for the
eleven packages whose doc.go (or main.go) opens with one, and `go doc` would
print them. Verified it doesn't.
2026-08-23 18:03:15 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 7e04351b0f Add cutover; drop rollback in favour of operator-provided recovery
Two changes that arrived together: the cutover phase (ARCHITECTURE.md 4.5)
is implemented, and the rollback phase is deleted. Recovery from a failed
migration is now explicitly the operator's own snapshot or backup, and out
of scope for this tool.

internal/cutover implements 4.5 as seven checkpointed steps: verify the
staged binary's version, install it, preserve and rewrite the service
definition, reload, start, wait for a healthy JMAP session, recalculate
quotas.

The unit is rewritten in place rather than generated from a template. An
operator's unit carries hardening options, limits and dependencies this
tool has no business having an opinion about, and regenerating it would
silently drop them. It repoints ExecStart (preserving systemd's -@:+!
prefix characters and every argument after the executable), updates
--config, and strips recovery-mode Environment lines - leaving
STALWART_RECOVERY_MODE=1 set would recovery-boot the service on every
restart, forever. It refuses on a unit with no ExecStart, and on an
Environment line mixing a recovery variable with others: a line it only
partly understands is one it must not edit.

Quota recalculation is the one step allowed to fail without failing the
phase. Its wire format is grounded in Stalwart's x:Task schema reference -
Task/set creating one AccountMaintenance per account with maintenanceType
recalculateQuota - but the upgrade guide only documents the WebUI path, so
two details remain inferred and are called out in stalwartapi/task.go:
whether the schema's "read-only" annotation on accountId/maintenanceType
means "immutable after creation", and whether a finished task simply leaves
the queue (TaskStatus documents Pending/Retry/Failed with no success
state). Warning rather than failing is the honest response to that
uncertainty, and stale counters are an accounting problem next to calling
for a restore of a machine that is otherwise migrated and serving mail.

Docker deployments are refused outright: cutting a container over means
pulling an image and recreating it, not swapping a binary.

On removing rollback. The implementation worked and was tested, and it was
removed because restoring bytes correctly is not the hard part. It copied
file contents and permissions and verified every restored file against a
manifest - and did not preserve ownership. Run as root, as this tool
requires, it would have produced a byte-perfect, checksum-verified,
root-owned data directory that Stalwart, running as its own user, could not
open, and it would have reported success. The PostgreSQL path was worse:
pg_dump without --clean emits CREATE TABLE + COPY, which fails replaying
into a database whose tables still exist, and the ON_ERROR_STOP=1 added so
a half-applied restore couldn't be reported as success turned that into a
hard failure. None of it had ever run against a real server. A filesystem
snapshot has none of these failure modes, because it never lost the
metadata to begin with.

So cutover's gate is no longer rollback.CanRollBack but an explicit
RecoveryPointConfirmed acknowledgement. That is an assertion, not a check -
this tool cannot verify someone else's snapshot - and its only value is
that nobody migrates a production mail server having never been asked the
question. Two consequences are accepted deliberately: restoring any
pre-migration recovery point discards mail delivered since, and a failed
migration now stops and reports rather than undoing itself.

What the tool still does to make a manual restore easier: the old binary is
preserved and never deleted, the original service definition is preserved
before the rewrite, the settings and principals dumps stay on disk, and
every artifact path and checksum stays in the checkpoint where `status
<run-id>` can print it.

Also removed: the `confirm` command stub and RollbackWindowClosed, whose
only purpose was closing a rollback window that no longer exists, and
checkpoint.PhaseRollback. Old state.json files still load - JSON ignores
the now-unknown field.

Still open, and recorded in 8: cutover ignores systemd drop-ins, so an
ExecStart or Environment override in stalwart.service.d/*.conf is invisible
to the rewrite - including the recovery variable it exists to strip;
nothing prevents concurrent runs on the same run-id; and nothing in this
repo has ever run against a real Stalwart, real systemd, or a real store.
2026-08-23 17:52:47 -07:00
jcoffey-dev ade9906275 Implement internal/rollback and the service control it needs
Rollback was the one phase gating everything else: `run` without --dry-run
refused because this tool could not undo a cutover it had committed to.
That reason is now gone, and the refusal has narrowed to the fact that
there is no real cutover to undo yet.

internal/rollback implements ARCHITECTURE.md 4.8 as eight checkpointed
steps under PhaseRollback: verify-backup, stop-service,
preserve-failed-state, restore-data, restore-binary,
restore-service-config, start-service, verify-rollback.

Three things depart from what 4.8 specified, each for a reason:

- The backup is re-verified against its manifest *before* the service is
  stopped, which the design didn't call out. Finding a corrupt backup is
  survivable while the failed instance is still up, and unsurvivable once
  its data directory has been moved aside.
- BuildPlan is separate from Run, so every reason to refuse (closed
  rollback window, FoundationDB, no recorded backup, unknown deployment
  kind, missing database credentials) is found before anything is touched.
  The CLI prints that resolved plan and acts only with --yes.
- The restore is re-verified against the same manifest after writing. A
  restore that put back truncated bytes and reported success would be
  worse than one that failed outright.

Nothing from the failed attempt is deleted: the half-migrated data
directory and the displaced binary are moved to .failed-<run-id> names, so
a retry after the underlying issue is fixed still has both the evidence and
the artifacts. Afterwards a reduced validation suite runs against the
*restored* instance (version, reachability, directory counts) rather than
assuming the restore worked.

internal/service is a new package holding the systemd/Docker control this
needs. It's separate rather than living inside internal/rollback because
cutover will need the identical operations, and because the commands that
can take mail delivery down belong in one auditable place - the same
reasoning that makes stalwartapi the only thing speaking JMAP.
preflight.DeploymentKind is now a type alias for service.Kind so detection
and control can't drift apart. Its Active() reads `systemctl is-active`'s
output rather than its exit status: systemctl exits non-zero for every
non-active state, so exit-status logic would make "inactive" - the answer a
rollback most needs - look like a failure to read the state at all.

Also fixes a pre-existing bug in `status`: Go's flag package stops parsing
at the first positional argument, so `status <run-id> --state-dir X` looked
the run up in the default directory and reported it missing. `rollback`
would have inherited the same footgun on a command whose flags decide what
gets overwritten.

Still open: `confirm` cannot set RollbackWindowClosed. Rollback honours the
flag and refuses when it's set, but closing the window is the point of no
return for the backups this restores from, so it should land with the
retention policy 6 describes rather than before it.

Verified end to end against a fake systemd deployment: half-migrated data
restored to its original contents, failed state preserved, old binary
reinstalled and reporting 0.15.5, unit restarted, and a re-run of the
completed rollback inert.
2026-08-23 15:54:48 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 5566eed1c8 Fix module path and restore cmd/ omitted by gitignore
Rename module github.com/johnellis/stalwart-migrator ->
github.com/LINUXexpert-org/stalwart-migrator to match the repository
location, so the module resolves under `go get`.

The initial commit's .gitignore listed the compiled binary as a bare
`stalwart-migrate` pattern, which Git matches at any depth -- so it also
excluded the cmd/stalwart-migrate/ source directory, and the initial
commit shipped without the CLI entrypoint. Anchor the pattern to the
repo root as /stalwart-migrate and add the four missing files.

go build, go vet, and go test ./... all pass.
2026-08-22 18:23:48 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 719a945d64 Initial commit: stalwart-migrator design and scaffolding
In-place upgrade tool for Stalwart Mail Server (0.15.5 -> latest) with
checkpointed rollback and post-migration validation. Design stage; see
ARCHITECTURE.md.
2026-08-22 18:17:17 -07:00