chriswayg.msmtp-mailer

This ansible role deploys msmtp as mailer for Debian / Ubuntu.

Prerequisite

• Having ansible installed on your workstation.
• Having an SMTP server

How to install

• Use github to clone/fork into your role directory
• 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. (recommended)
• Editing var/main.yml
• Run ansible-playbook with -e
• Edit the default/main.yml (not recommended)

Run

By default mstmp will work as 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 on the root mail

Documentation

msmtp manual