chriswayg.msmtp-mailer

ansible-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/download into your roles directory:
- git clone https://github.com/chriswayg/ansible-msmtp-mailer.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:      [email protected]
  user:      [email protected]
  password:  "some password"
- account:   mysmtp
  host:      smtp.example
  port:      587
  auth:      "on"
  from:      [email protected]
  user:      [email protected]
  password:  plain-text-password2
  tls_starttls: "off"

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 : [email protected]
- msmtp_alias_root: root email this is optional
  
  msmtp_alias_root : [email protected]
- msmtp_alias_cron: cron email this optional
  
  msmtp_alias_cron : [email protected]
Configuration file permissions
- msmtprc_owner: owner of /etc/msmtprc, default root
  
  msmtprc_owner : root
- msmtprc_group: group of /etc/msmtprc, default root
  
  msmtprc_group : root
- msmtprc_mode: group of /etc/msmtprc, default 0644
  
  msmtprc_mode : 0644

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:
    - ansible-msmtp-mailer

Run

mstmp used to function out of the box with the provided defaults/main.yml settings, because the configuration used a real smtp server for testing, but Yandex does not allow this any more. Instead use a Gmail account for testing.

ansible-playbook -l hostname msmtp.yml