IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a work in progress, and not yet finished or functional!

Ansible playbook to setup a mail server

This is an Ansible-Playbook for an adapted version of the mail server setup described in this tutorial: https://thomas-leister.de/mailserver-debian-stretch/ written by Thomas Leister.

This mail server is intended to run on AlmaLinux OS 9 (and equivalents).

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.7
• Server with AlmaLinux OS 9 operating system (equivalent OS's might work, but have not been tested)
• SSH key to login to the server
• Public domain resolving to the server

Configuration

Inventory

Set the hostname in the inventory file hosts

Variables

All variables are stored in the vars file. Set the values according to your server.

Credentials

Credentials are stored in the vault.yml. The Password is "vault". Please change the password with ansible-vault rekey group_vars/all/vault.yml.

• Database user: "vmail", pass: "vmail" (Please change it)
• Mail user: "mail", pass: "mail" (Please change it)
• Rspam admin password: "rspamadmpw"

Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i ./hosts site.yml --ask-vault-pass

Test

Molecule

The results of the ansible playbook can be tested with Molecule

Test with molecule

Build the mail server

ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE=<YOUR_VAULT_PASS_FILE_PATH> molecule converge

Verify the installation

ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE=<YOUR_VAULT_PASS_FILE_PATH> molecule verify

Build, test and destroy in one command

ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE=<YOUR_VAULT_PASS_FILE_PATH> molecule test