ISPmail Ansible Playbook

This repository contains a playbook and roles that you can use to set up your own Debian-based mail server. Behind the scene, it makes use of postfix, dovecot, postgresql.

This is a modified version of the original repo: (https://git.workaround.org/chaas/ansible-ispmail-jessie/)

Modifications include:

• use of postgres
• rewrite in ansible-style
• tests and CI
• webmail removed

Development

Dependencies

• vagrant
• ansible 2.6
• python 3
• virtualbox (other virts may work too)
• molecule
• docker

Setting up

• Clone the repository
• cd ansible-mailserver
• If you want to use a virtual environment make sure it is activated here

You can use vagrant:

• vagrant up will create 3 VMs: the mailservers (north and south) and the tester

Or you can use molecule in docker:

• molecule converge

Running tests

With molecule

• molecule test or molecule test -s single will run the full test suite

With vagrant

Tests are manually started:

• vagrant ssh tester
• cd suite
• pytest

Test suites test_imap.py and test_smtp.py hit by default north.mail.local. The target can be configured with the flag --server.

Credits and copyrights

The original code was written by Christoph "Signum" Haas © for (http://www.workaround.org) and is licensed under MIT. Please take a look at his article about mailservers, it's one of the best you could find on the Internet.

Contributors:

• Christopher Haas (original code: ansible-ispmail-jessie)
• hugoShaka
• dric0

License

According to the original license everything in this repository can be freely used under the terms of the MIT license.