Simple role for configuring Dovecot pop3/imap server on ubuntu xenial and centos 7.

With this role you can configure Dovecot in sorts of ways:

• simple dovecot with pam authentication
• Dovecot with sql authentication and service.
• Dovecot with quota
• Dovecot with sieve and managesieve

warning: Some part of role like sieve and managesieve not fully tested. Be careful

• add ldap authentication support
• add custom config documentation

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python
• python-apt

If you dont change any variable dovecot will configured with simple pam authentication looking for mails in /var/mail/%u.

---
# simple dovecot pop3/imap configuration
- hosts: mail
  roles:
    - role: ghobadimhd.dovecot

dovecot with only sql authentication that revieve mail through dovecot lmtp service with quota enabled.

default configuration use database named vmail that contains users table like below.

sql:

create table if not exists users  (
  id int,
  username nvarchar(80),
  domain nvarchar(80),
  password nvarchar(512),
  uid int NULL,
  gid int NULL,
  home nvarchar(500) NULL
);
CREATE TABLE quota (
  username varchar(100) not null,
  bytes bigint not null default 0,
  messages integer not null default 0,
  primary key (username)
);
grant all on vmail.* to 'dovecot'@'localhost' identified by 'dovecot' ;

playbook.yml:

---
- hosts: mail
  roles:
    - role: ghobadimhd.dovecot
      dovecot_local_auth_enable: no
      dovecot_sql_auth_enable: yes
      dovecot_lmtp_service_enable: yes
      dovecot_quota_enable: yes
      dovecot_quota_driver: sql

MIT

Mohammad Ghobadi

Email: [email protected]