chriswayg.msmtp-mailer

This ansible role deploys msmtp as a mailer for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch & Alpine Linux

Prerequisite

• Access to a functioning SMTP server.

How to install

• Either use github to clone/dwonload into your roles directory:
  • git clone https://github.com/chriswayg/ansible-etckeeper.git
• Or use ansible galaxy:
  • ansible-galaxy install chriswayg.msmtp-mailer

Variables

All the default variables are located defaults/main.yml. Mostly you would need to configure the following variables.

• msmtp_accounts: You can define one or more smtp accounts:

  msmtp_accounts:
  - account:   gmail
    host:      smtp.gmail.com
    port:      587
    auth:      "on"
    from:      example@gmail.example
    user:      example@gmail.example
    password:  "some password"
  - account:   mysmtp
    host:      smtp.example
    port:      587
    auth:      "on"
    from:      admin@example.org
    user:      myuser@example.org
    password:  plain-text-password2
  

• msmtp_default_account: Default smtp account to use

  msmtp_default_account: "gmail"

• Logging

  • Option A (syslog)

     msmtp_log : "syslog"
    

  • Option B (file logging)

     msmtp_log     : "file"
     msmtp_logfile : /var/log/msmtp.log
    

  • Option C (No logging)

     msmtp_log     : "no"
    

• Mail aliases

  • msmtp_alias_default: default email this required

    msmtp_alias_default : ops@example.com

  • msmtp_alias_root: root email this is optional

    msmtp_alias_root : root@example.com

  • msmtp_alias_cron: cron email this optional

    msmtp_alias_cron : cron@example.com

Configure

You can configure your variables in ansible with one of the following

• Create a variable in host/group variables directory.
• Editing vars/main.yml
• Run ansible-playbook with -e
• Edit the defaults/main.yml (not recommended)

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - chriswayg.msmtp-mailer

Run

By default mstmp will function out of the box with the defaults/main.yml settings, because the configuration uses a real smtp server (for testing only!)

ansible-playbook -l hostname msmtp.yml

Test

You should get a test mail if it works as expected on the root mail

Documentation

msmtp manual