Role Name

An Ansible Role to install and configure postfix, and configure postfix to use Google's SMTP service to relay mail for root, to a specified user. A self signed cert is created, and postfix is configured to use that certificate for SASL.

Requirements

An Ansible vault to store username and password located in files/

I.E. $ ansible-vault create files/postfix_mail_relay_vault.yml

Set a password for the vault.

The vault should contain the following variables:

postfix_mail_relay_vault_username: [email protected] postfix_mail_relay_vault_password: google-application-pa$$word1

Required variables must set in vars/main.yml

Role Variables

target - The remote target node. postfix_mail_relay - The hostname of the mail relay to be used. I.E. smtp.gmail.com postfix_mail_relay_port - The port specification. I.E. 587 country - The C value used during certificate creation state - The ST value used during certificate creation local - The L value used during certificate creation org - The O value used during certificate creation ou - The OU value used during certificate creation

Dependencies

Example Playbook

--

• name: playbook to run postfix_mail_relay role become: yes become_flags: -H -S hosts: "{{ target }}" gather_facts: yes

  vars_files:

  • files/postfix_mail_relay_vault.yml
  • vars/main.yml

  roles:

  • postfix_mail_relay

License

GPL-2.0 and later

Author Information

[email protected]