Ansible Role: Postfix

Installs postfix on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

If you're using this as an SMTP relay server, you will need to do that on your own, and open TCP port 25 in your server firewall.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

postfix_config_file: /etc/postfix/main.cf

The path to the Postfix main.cf configuration file.

postfix_service_state: started
postfix_service_enabled: true

The state in which the Postfix service should be after this role runs, and whether to enable the service on startup.

postfix_inet_interfaces: localhost
postfix_inet_protocols: all

Options for values inet_interfaces and inet_protocols in the main.cf file.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.postfix

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.