This ansible role deploys msmtp for Ubuntu 18.04

• Having ansible installed on your workstation.
• Having an SMTP server

• Use github to clone/fork in your role directory
• ansible galaxy ansible-galaxy install joelnb.msmtp

All the default variables are located defaults/main.yml. Mostly you would need to configure the following variables.

• msmtp_accounts: You can define one or more smtp account

  msmtp_accounts:
  - account: "gmail"
    host: "smtp.gmail.com"
    port: 587
    auth: "on"
    user: "[email protected]"
    password: "some password"
  - account: "mysmtp"
    host: "smtp.example"
    port: 587
    auth: "on"
    user: "myuser"
    password: "123456"

• msmtp_default_account: Default smtp account to use

  msmtp_default_account: "gmail"

• msmtp_from: From field

  msmtp_from: "No Reply"

• Logging

  • Option A (syslog)

    msmtp_log: "syslog"

  • Option B (file logging)

    msmtp_log: "file"
    msmtp_logfile: /var/log/msmtp.log

  • Option C (No logging)

    msmtp_log: "no"

• Mail aliases

  • msmtp_alias_default: default email this required

    msmtp_alias_default: [email protected]

  • msmtp_alias_root: root email this is optional

    msmtp_alias_root: [email protected]

  • msmtp_alias_cron: cron email this optional

    msmtp_alias_cron: [email protected]

You can configure your variables in ansible with one of the following

• Create a variable in host/group variables directory. (recommended)
• Editing var/main.yml
• Run ansible-playbook with -e
• Edit the default/main.yml (not recommended)

By default the mstmp will fail because the configuration uses a bogus smtp server you need to use a valid smtp server

ansible-playbook -l hostname msmtp.yml

You should get a test mail if it works on the root mail

From field requires more work: https://msmtp.sourceforge.net/doc/msmtp.html#Envelope_002dfrom-address

Initial work on this role was done by ahelal over at AutomationWithAnsible/ansible-msmtp.