mail.md

sys::mail

Configures Postfix to forward outgoing messages to a mail relay.

↪ attributes/mail.rb
↪ recipes/mail.rb
↪ resources/mail_alias.rb
↪ providers/mail_alias.rb

Custom Resource sys_mail_alias

Add or change (Postfix) account to mail address aliases in /etc/aliases with sys_mail_alias.

sys_mail_alias "jdoe" do
  to "jdoe@devops.test"
end

Use action :remove to remove an alias. The aliases file defaults to /etc/aliases, but can be overriden via aliases_file '/etc/otheraliases'.

Attributes

All attributes in node['sys']['mail]:

| relay | (required) | defines the mail relay host FQDN. | | aliases | (optional) | hash of account name, mail address pairs. | | canonical | (optional) | hash of mappings for postfix's canonical map | | virtual | (optional) | hash of mappings for postfix's virtual map | | mynetworks | (optional) | string with additional space separated values for the postfix mynetworks configuration option, cause the postfix inet_interfaces option to be set to all, too | | mydestination| (optional) | string with additional comma separated values for postfix mydestination configuration option | default_privs| (optional) | string with a value for the postfix default_privs configuration option | | export_environment | optional | array of environment variables that will be passed to binaries or scripts called in /etc/alias (alias: '|/path/command')
The contents of this array will be merged with the default TZ, LANG, MAIL_CONFIG | | message_size_limit | (optional) | Maximum mail size, larger mails will be bounced |

Example

[...SNIP...]
"sys" => {
  "mail" => {
    "relay" => "smtp.devops.test",
    "aliases => {
      "root" => "jdoe@devops.test",
      "logcheck" => "root"
    }
  }
}
[...SNIP...]