Ansible Role: smtpdebuggingserver

Configures a fake smtp server as a systemd service.

Uses python's class smtpd.DebuggingServer: https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtpd.html#debuggingserver-objects

Requirements

python3 systemd

Role Variables

Configure the local host to bind the server:

smtp_debugging_server_host: localhost

Configure the local port to bind the server:

smtp_debugging_server_port: 8025

Configure a user to run systemd service:

smtp_debugging_server_systemd_user: root

Configure the systemd service type:

smtp_debugging_server_systemd_type: simple

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Example Playbook

Example with default variables:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: rsicart.smtpdebuggingserver }

Example configuring the server to listen on default ipv4 address:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: rsicart.smtpdebuggingserver
  vars:
    smtp_debugging_server_host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4.address | default(ansible_all_ipv4_addresses[0], true) }}"

License

GPL-3.0-only

Author Information

https://gitlab.com/rsicart https://github.com/rsicart