Ansible Postfix role

This role is an easy way of configuring outgoing mail through a relay for local users. It's intended to be used by local users only, for example, to send mail from cronjobs to an external address. By default, the role uses Amazon AWS as a relay.

An aliases file is set up along with Postfix, where all email is forwarded to the current Ansible user. Those emails are then forwarded to an external email address. If you need to set up a more complex aliases file, you'll need to edit the file manually.

Example usage in a playbook

- hosts: vm1.home.lan
  become: yes
  vars:
    mail_hostname: vm1.home.lan
    canonical_name: vm1.home.example.com
    external_email_address: jackbenny@example.com
    relay_host: email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
    relay_port: 465
    relay_user: xxx
    relay_password: yyy
    
  roles:
    - jackbenny.postfix